imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.
I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.
Yeah, I never got an early adopter invite, and by the time it launched to the public, someone already had my name. Apparently there’s some middle aged programmer who shares my name, and he got an invite.
Same way back in the land of 2006.
It is still under my Livejournal name hahahaha.
Kid taking my gmail address: how did they allow you to have a troll name for email address?
I was there when gmail was invented.
as cool as it is to have a gmail account from back then, I have an older lady in the US who just registers things against it, because we have the same first initial and last name. I found her on facebook and messaged her to tell to please stop using my email address, she still does it from time to time.
Its crazy that stuff like ebay will let you verify an account with a mobile number, but never verify the email address. I ended up moving her ebay account to an email address that I created, but I was tempted to buy a bunch of shit for her…
I got
<first_name_initial><middle_name_initial><last_name>@gmail.comin imitation of my university webmail account name. My brother who had the same first name and middle name initials knew this and had adjusted accordingly.However, recently, someone registered this e-mail for school and I kept receiving their school e-mails.
My e-mail account is already roughly two decades old at this point, so I thought I was safe from this kind of problem.
I’ve gotten that a few times from people, I got mine when it was still in beta. Don’t use it anymore because google, switched to Proton.
I heard that Proton email addresses have developed a reputation for often belonging to scammers and spammers. Do you know if any of your outgoing email has ended up in anyone’s spam box?
Can’t say that I do, but I also don’t know how I’d ever discover that what you’re asking happened.
Heh yeah, good point. Maybe I’ll just try it for a while
My partner has his lastname@gmail.com. no letter number €_-+() or whatever.
Stupid part now is that sometimes he gets mail for letter . /_/ - lastname. Only on important stuff he reacts. He still is happy with it.
I’ll never understand why anyone would ever use their real name as a username. Why would you intentionally dox yourself?
For email? Business.
Still wouldn’t do it.
Edit: Also, using Gmail as your businesses email address is extremely unprofessional. You should be using your own domain. You can always forward it to Gmail.
Not everyone has the knowledge/interest/money to buy a domain and set it up with their email, let alone switch their logins to a new email.
Bro over here using megacock420@gmail.com for job applications.
Lol it’s admin@[my.domain]
I fully agree with you.
When we get resumes, applicants that don’t have some variation of firstname.lastname@… as their email tend to go on the bottom of the pile.
Good, cause I would never want to work for a company that petty.
Previously you claimed that using the Gmail domain is “extremely unprofessional”. However, a company that considers email addresses with real names to be more professional is “petty”. 🤔
There’s a lot of people here who have no idea how little the general public cares about technology.
Pete the plasterer isn’t setting up his own domain, you absolute goober. There’s a lot of small businesses that are just companyname@gmail.com
Just pause for a few seconds and think before you type
I stand by what I said. This is basic privacy 101
What if you need to make money though lol
That’s why I have a job.
My work email is my first and last name haha
Because a lot of times you specifically want people to know who you are lol.
My son at the bank with the director (the manager wasn’t there) opening his bank account:
So first name, your mail is: hellfireturtleboonstox@gmail …
Son:🥸
Summer 2005. I have the first letters for my name and middle names and then the full last name dot gmail.com. However, nowadays I use my own domain. Since 2008 i got my own domain dot country code but it was for selfhosting. 4 letters dot country code. Only last three years ago i switch to use it for mail as well. I dont host my inbox, just forwards it.
I changed my name… I added numbers to my new email address :(
Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don’t think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.
They still exist. You can grab a new one for free whenever. They only expire if you don’t use them for ~6 months, and then you just ask for a new one.
They are great for a small business Lines?
In a galaxy far away…
Naboo was under an attack.
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation in
To maybe… cutting them a… little slack.
But their response, it didn’t thrill us.
They locked the doors and tried to kill us.
We escaped from that gas
Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass
I currently have my full name on GMail and Proton, but I actually had my first name on GMail when it first launched. As in, if my name was Brian (it isn’t (it might be (it isn’t))) I had brian@gmail.com. Sold it for £1000.
Wouldnt you get extra spam for having such a simple name?
I gave up. I own my name as a domain.
So if my name was John Doe, as an example, my domain would be Johndoe.com and my email would be John@Johndoe (dot) com.
My name isn’t John Doe.
Gmail is cool and all, but it’s pretty sweet to have my custom domain name and email.
The domain I really want is just my last name, so I can be firstname@lastname (dot) com.
Unfortunately my last name isn’t uncommon and the last time I checked, the squatters on the domain were asking like $3k usd for it.
All kind of nope on that.
