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Young age: “xXx_pussyslayer666_xXx@notevilmail.com is a cool e-mail address!”
Early adulthood: “Noooo, I need to be professional, my mail is now johnsmith1994@notevilmail.com!”
Late adulthood: “For the sake of my privacy, I"m now using xXx_pussyslayer666_xXx@privacymail.com.”
At 15: I better get an email address that reflects my interests and personality!
At 25: Ok ok my name is the only permanent thing about me so it should be based on my name.
At 35: why am I revealing this much personal information in my email address? I should just have a random jumble of letters.
I use proton and they have this feature to generate a random email address based on the sits or a note. It’s a little more advanced then user+microsoft@proton.me. and you can deactivate the address so your main inbox stops getting spam.
My man!
I’m at that last stage now but fuck I’m too lazy to change again 🤣
At least I have my burner address…
First initial, last name, never fails. Except when you change your name. Then it fails.
Susan Hart disagrees.
Ok, so it also fails sometimes when your name is unfortunate. But other than those times that it fails, it never fails.
Sadly my name is slightly common but I’ve had my Gmail account since it was invite only. I’m not a Google fan but there is my entire life in that email history…
I have extended family life never met use my Gmail (firstletterlastname) as theirs because they forget to add the numbers or whatever else they used to create theirs.
I knew two D. Adcocks. Their email address must be fun.
Double dadcocks.
I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.
So does Alan Buser.
Me at age 6, picking my username (and therefore first email address), knowing that it needs to be unique so I can use it for all accounts online, and also have meaning behind it so I don’t look like an idiot when I’m an adult: 🐺🖥️🌐
(this name is 27 years old and counting)
This one is from AOL. Circa 1993/1994
Yeah, that UI isn’t from Win 9x or anything I recognize. But my first account was with AOL as well, ha.
Nice. I cannot even remember my username from back then. Lost it sometime between military and college.
I was 10 when the Internet because publicly accessible, and 13 when I made my first ever email address. I used my current username as my email handle, which was an abbreviated version of my name.
It took me like 10 seconds to come up with it. I had a cute girlfriend who was insisting I make a private email because I was sharing my mother’s email account and my girlfriend didn’t like my mother having access to our private conversations.
It’s been 29 years now and I’m still using this username. My original email is long gone, but the username lives on.
Damn were you a furry at 6 or did you turn into one so your username checks out?
I joined the fandom/made a sona at 11 years old, but the username (wreckedcarzz) isn’t furry-related (my display name, Midnight Wolf). I’m crazy about cars, and my father was, among other things, an accident reconstructionist. So growing up I got deeply interested in vehicle safety, crash tests, and the body protection and tech as it evolved. I got to attend an event with other reconstructionists and related professionals, and got to see an F-150 (I think) slam into a bollard at… 50mph? While myself and others were just like 100 feet away, maybe less than that. Discussing the mathematics behind it, talking about how a collision that someone might not think is that dangerous can make a vehicle a coffin, first responders tasks, etc.
So when I was brainstorming a username, I was wanting something that mentions cars, but is also unique and evokes the fun but danger of them. Wrecked, cars. But that’s boring and isn’t unique. But usually, two cars are involved in a collision… And they can get pretty mangled… wrecked carzz, with the zz representing the two crashed cars.
wreckedcarzz. And so it was decided.
My furry name was less interesting. I’m pretty bad at coming up with names, so it took me a couple weeks to decide on one. But I’m always up late, hate mornings. And my sona was a wolf (now the majority of my hybrid sona is still a wolf, but also tiger and fox sprinkled in). It’s not creative but it’s descriptive, and Midnight is an okay name, so Midnight Wolf. When I attended Midwest Furfest… 4 years ago? The lady who was helping me with my badge remarked that there were 3 or 4 other Midnight Wolfs in attendance that year. I’m not super old, but I’ve been in the fandom for 22 years now, so I was likely the oldest and longest Midnight Wolf in attendance.
I mean, you are allowed more than one email address
You wouldn’t believe the amount of unprofessional email addresses I saw when I used to do hiring. It sounds like a meme but please think before using bigjuicy69@hotmail.com as your contact email!
Hey how did you get my email address??
With the amount of times I hear employers selling the info… I think giving a throwaway email on the application is probably just a safety concern at this point. Not sure I would put that much stock in what the email says.
A throwaway email is one thing, but if you can’t be assed to make a non-offensive, non-edgy, bland email address for a job application/resume, I’m not waisting my time interviewing you. It’s the same with typos, details matter for those 15 seconds your app crosses a desk.
My mom made my first email on KOL(AOL for kids) and misspelled my name. To this day my gmail has that misspelling in it.
Mikie?
Milky
Micheal, pretty sure I’ve given a few dyslexic people a real hard time when I put that in the email field and the correct spelling in the first name field.
I made a sensible email address with my last name followed by my first initial when google mail first started. Young people are always in awe of the fact that I got to have my name as my email address without adding anything extra to it.
Yep. I’m old enough to have 2 such email addresses.
I was that dumb kid who got my first gmail invite from a friend and never thought to use my first name/last name because it was during the time that we all were supposed to be ‘anonymous’ as everyone on the internet was a murderer.
On the other hand, my six letter Gmail address now constantly gets messages from people who mistyped their email addresses when signing up for things.
You can forward emails from another address for your resume, and I don’t think siriusxm cares
Forever ago, in a post about “applying for jobs after graduating college” tips on Ask[fuckyouspez], I suggested creating a new email address like FirstName.MI.LastName and use that for applying to jobs, definitely don’t use your old email like Xx_PussyDestroyer420_xX@hotmail.com.
I got banned from the sub for violating their rule of “don’t post emails addresses”.
yoyokiddo2000@yahoo.com has entered the chat
First initial and full last name, 6 characters which is the minimum for Gmail. Thank you younger responsible self!
Hope you’re a responsible adult
Rocking my Hotmail since 1998.
Still ocassionaly typo HotMale and get a surprise.
Luckily I just picked my name and a zip number.
Two problems; zip number is kind of a personal info, and at that age I didn’t even know my zip number properly and made an error, which persists 20 years later.
I thought an email adress was like a website. My first email has a www. in front. Luckily my name is so unique, I can create new ones with my name on every service
Putting www. at the start of an email is very funny I might do that one say - i often go with youcancontact(myname)@service(com), adding www would make me giggle and confuse everyone i have to read it out to
itswwdoubleyoudot.firstname.sorryimeantdashatgmail.com@gmail.com
poopybutthole@hotmail.com checking in!
Fortunately my name and last name aren’t that common so I made an email like name.lastname@mail.com for adult stuff
Dad’s is but he was first.
Mine is the most original ever: 😐
[First Name][Last Name] at Gmail and Yahoo.
Got the yahoo when they first started offering them, and the Gmail when it was invite only.
Yahoo for 90% of my online correspondence. Gmail for mostly professional / work related stuff.
[First Name][Last Name]@gmail.com is original.
I apologize for not being clear.
[First Name ][Last Name] meant if my name was John Smith, my email would be JohnSmith@gnail.com. Actually having it be like what you thought would be awesome though!
A couple of years ago, I was applying for a work visa, and they needed my college transcripts. Despite matriculating in 19somethingsomethingoldold, my class was one of the first to use an online system that was able to be migrated into multiple subsequent generations of registrar systems, so they needed to have my school email ID, which I hadn’t thought about eleventymilliongetoffmylawn years, so THAT meant placing a call to campus IT, and providing enough personal information for them to look it up.
And that, my online friends, is when you are forced to viscerally confront that you were a deeply cringe knowitall who spent way too much time thinking your personality flaws were edgy superpowers and that knowing the name of a random reference in a Bertrand Russell book you barely understood proved how smart you were.
That’s why I’m still BeanieBaby69@AOL.com.
No offense to you, but why does that handle conjure up a vision of someone with a “Karen hairstyle” wanting to speak to the manager?
Ugh you made me have flashbacks. The smell of hairspray is suffocating. Eyes tingling. Ears can’t handle the screeching wails.
Aaaaaggghhhhh
I can’t imagine what people have to listen to when they ask a customer for their email address. There will be sane people that have a “normal” address for such purposes, then there will be the ones that keep “pussysmasher_hobag@whatever.com” as some kind of flex and make everyone else have to copy that down.
You know an adult can just get a domain name and thus get a different email address. Like h4ds3x@yomammas.house
I had to apply to get an invite for gmail back in 03. Still got it. This tracks.
It really dies does track (you), which is why I’m abandoning my >20 y/o gmail address
Oh I ended up with hundreds of invites! Takes me back
Weird that that’s a whole generation ago
I am still using an abstraction of my first ever Geocities password in some older accounts that I haven’t scrambled yet. Password requirements were basically nil back last century, it’s important to remember.
I still remember my icq number and password. I just double checked to see if I took my bp meds this evening
I always used multiple emails, depending on whether they were for professional use or hobby use.
I miss my dimbulb@poop.com email.
Look, I got a DEFINITIVE ARTICLE and NO numbers. Only the OGs rock that stuff.
I have hundreds of e-mail addresses and aliases…
Email aliases incredibly underrated
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phar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Darn s8ers
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He was a sater oy, she said, “See you ater, oy”