<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" style="question"
      id="accounts-whyadd">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="accounts" group="#first"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.5.5" date="2012-08-14" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-02-20" status="candidate"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Susanna Huhtanen</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Why add your email or social media accounts to your desktop?</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Why add an account?</title>

  <p>Adding your online accounts brings your choice of services like calendar,
  chat, and e-mail straight to your desktop and makes the information of the
  services a seamless part of your user experience. By adding accounts you can
  easily keep in touch using services from different accounts, like chats, at
  the same time. Just set up your online accounts once and every time you start
  your computer all the accounts and services that you have added are ready to
  use.</p>

  <p>See <link xref="accounts-which-application"/> for information on which
  applications can access which online services.</p>
</page>