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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’m at that last stage now but fuck I’m too lazy to change again 🤣

      At least I have my burner address…

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    poopybutthole@hotmail.com checking in!

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  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. I’m old enough to have 2 such email addresses.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I always used multiple emails, depending on whether they were for professional use or hobby use.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.”

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  • WandowsVista@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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”.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s why I’m still BeanieBaby69@AOL.com.

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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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?

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have an email address that’s kind of tricky to read aloud. As decades went on, it’s less and less funny, to be frank.

    Luckily the service also gave me a firstname dot lastname type alias. I’ve lately been giving it out if I have to say it over the phone or something. …Also I guess it looks more professional in CVs or something.

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  • CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mr. and Mrs. McGill,

    Thank you for your time. While the vicious poisoning of your son was a horrific tragedy, I am sure that with the evidence we discussed, justice will be served and the perpetrators will be made to financially compensate your shattered family. If you need to contact me or any of the other lawyers at our firm regarding this important matter, you can reach me at s3XXXyS8ergurl69@aol.com.

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    • phar@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Darn s8ers

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He was a sater oy, she said, “See you ater, oy”

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had some silly ones when I was younger, but I also made one that’s <first name>.<last name>@<service>.com which I’m using to this day. The only problem is that from time to time I get emails seemingly addressed to the fella using the same address, but without the dot between the names.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weirdly I’m thankful someone stole and changed my password to dbzboy19@hotmail.com when I was in high school. It prompted me to generate a new, more respectable, email address. Otherwise this would be a pretty unfortunate reality for me.

    That being said, fuck that guy. feel free to send that email spam and gross images on my behalf to fill up their storage.

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  • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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  • jagermo@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, you are allowed more than one email address

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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!

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    • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        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.

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    • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey how did you get my email address??

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First initial, last name, never fails. Except when you change your name. Then it fails.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Susan Hart disagrees.

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      • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So does Alan Buser.

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      • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ok, so it also fails sometimes when your name is unfortunate. But other than those times that it fails, it never fails.

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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…

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      • amgine@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I knew two D. Adcocks. Their email address must be fun.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.

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      • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Double dadcocks.

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    • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So does Alan Buser.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mikie?

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      • wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Milky

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  • DizzyMoth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fortunately my name and last name aren’t that common so I made an email like name.lastname@mail.com for adult stuff

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dad’s is but he was first.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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)

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    • phar@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This one is from AOL. Circa 1993/1994

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, that UI isn’t from Win 9x or anything I recognize. But my first account was with AOL as well, ha.

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      • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nice. I cannot even remember my username from back then. Lost it sometime between military and college.

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    • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn were you a furry at 6 or did you turn into one so your username checks out?

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know an adult can just get a domain name and thus get a different email address. Like h4ds3x@yomammas.house

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can forward emails from another address for your resume, and I don’t think siriusxm cares

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  • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i changed my provider in recent jears but still kept the typo from my old one

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  • SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yoyokiddo2000@yahoo.com has entered the chat

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  • The_Wumpus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had to apply to get an invite for gmail back in 03. Still got it. This tracks.

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    • kuerbiskernoel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It really dies does track (you), which is why I’m abandoning my >20 y/o gmail address

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      • The_Wumpus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We should all probably get proton

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I ended up with hundreds of invites! Takes me back

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      • The_Wumpus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Weird that that’s a whole generation ago

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  • AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      [First Name][Last Name]@gmail.com is original.

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • amgine@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I still remember my icq number and password. I just double checked to see if I took my bp meds this evening

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Ydna@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuzzypuppy13 is ready to hit the job boards!!

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