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.
My name is uncommon enough that I can always pick my name everywhere, and when I can’t it means I forgot I had an account.
I have this and the other people with my name give it as their own email address all the time, apparently not understanding that you don’t get the address just for existing.
it happens to me too, though my format is lastname.firstinitial, so I have more potential for confusion as my last name isn’t super uncommon.
people just sign up for stuff with it. sometimes banks even.
Ha ha this happens to me so much. I even had to help a poor dude out because his account (and stuff getting delivered) all was under my email.
On a side note, I got the firstnamelastname@gmail, but Gmail often proposed the firstname.lastname@gmail in autocomplete, with my image and all, so I just “recovered” it. Now I have both when I’m trying to ditch Google 🤷🏼♀️
Gmail addresses with and without a dot are actually identical. Mine has a dot but I also get emails without the dot.
Ugh same. My first name is very common, last name moderately uncommon. I’ve gotten loads of stuff. Various quotes and invoices (vet, mechanic, window installation), invitations to child care groups, family gathering invitations (that one I think was the person writing the email address, not the person with my name).
Most of the time I just immediately unsubscribe or block or whatever and move on, but there’s some (like the child care group) I had to reach out to because that could be potentially dangerous.
Get your own email right, people! It shouldn’t be my responsibility to manage your email. Some of that shit includes your home address too.
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 was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn’t matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh…
Google hasn’t really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?I thought it was an April fools gag.
I have that for my deadname account, but I had to put a number in my post transition gmail account. I do have firstname@lastname as a personal domain though some sites don’t like that.
And here I am, with a [email protected] address, running my own mail server.
- People sometimes act like this is pure magic
- Some providers only allow popular mail services on signup (fuck those), so I had to set up a GMail address that just redirects to my actual one
- My last name is really hard to spell, so it probably wasn’t the best idea, since I always struggle communicating that address verbally
The pain of running this still beats having to deal with a free provider out there that either spams my inbox with their own BS or just skims through the data to serve me ads.
I have @firstnamelastname.tld since last name was taken (unrelated to me).
Typically use [email protected] when giving out my email to keep track of spam so I used [email protected] when buying tickets.
At the check in the person saw my airline@ email and askes: oh do you also work for airline?
QR codes can help
I’m using my custom domain email with a hosting service (mailbox.org). Hosting on my own was a pain in the ass and you also have to deal with spam filters not trusting you.
Sadly I didn’t think to try to grab my last name until recently, and it has been owned for quite a while.
Nice! I have [email protected].
Congrats!
What setup did you use? I’m interested in doing this as well. I’ve already self hosted a NAS with vpn access using an RPI4 with PiVPN. It works quite well.
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?
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.
I’ll never understand why anyone would ever use their real name as a username. Why would you intentionally dox yourself?
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:🥸
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.
Pete the plasterer isn’t setting up his own domain, you absolute goober. There’s a lot of small businesses that are just [email protected]
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 [email protected] for job applications.
Lol it’s admin@[my.domain]
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.
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.
I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.
Same way back in the land of 2006.
It is still under my Livejournal name hahahaha.
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.
I have a somewhat common word as my last name.
My first two initials are ‘al’, which means “to the” in Italian.
My email is [email protected]
I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.
I have a first name that is of Saxon origin but this name has also developed in Sanskrit independently from the Saxon name and the name is very common in India. One of my email addresses is [firstname][email protected] I often get email directed to some Indian bloke. And it’s always for a different guy. I think these people don’t have an email and just make one up when they signed up for something. I even get someone’s banking communications.
I have just my last name, and get signed up for all kinds of bullshit by people with my last name because they’ll enter firstname<space>[email protected] when signing up for stupid shit.
There was a mixup with a German teacher in France once and all of her students sent their homework to my email instead of hers. That was fun!
Did they get good marks?
Found Alex Fresco!
Tbf im the only person on the planet with my name. I think that’s pretty neat.
For context, I have a made up last name so I know everyone on earth with my family name
I have an uncommon Anglo Saxon first name. (Funny thing is this name is very common in India but the Indian and Saxon version don’t share the same origin) and I have an uncommon French last name. So I have every variation of my full name as a Gmail address.
In my 40+ years alive, I’ve never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.
My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I’ve ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.
Combine the two, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only person on the planet with my specific name. I’ve never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.
Made me curious now, shame you’d have to dox yourself to tell me 😔
I mean, this is my public username. It takes a very quick Google search to dox me. Most of my name is in my username already.
I can’t think of what Norwegian name it’s supposed to be a Danish pronunciation of, tbh. Severin?
My family is originally from Sauda in Norway. Norwegian tradition used to be that your family name was the name of your home. If you moved to a new farm, you adopted the name of that farm as your new family name. They don’t do this anymore, as it got really hard to track genealogical records with families changing names all the time.
When my ancestors immigrated to America, Norway was under Danish rule, as Denmark had conquered Norway at the time and was forcing Danish pronunciation on the Norwegian language. So my family name’s pronunciation of “saw-duh” became “sov-dae.”
When my ancestors got to America, no one could pronounce my family name correctly, so they changed the spelling to be more phonetic in the English language. And that’s how I got my current family name!
Right, yes that was common, being named after the farm. Interesting family story 🙂
Though, being Danish, I have a national duty to say that Denmark didn’t conquer Norway, it was inherited by a king around 1400 and then developed into a full union in 15-something when the Swedes left the Kalmar Union. It was a dual monarchy, effectively one country, ruled from Copenhagen and standard Danish was no more forced on the Norwegians than it was forced on other Danes speaking a dialect of Danish.
The union was dissolved in 1814 when Napoleon (who was allied to Denmark), lost his wars and Norway was given to Sweden. After 100 years under Swedish rule, Norway was finally independent.
It’s been something of a national need in Norway to emphasize all the bad things under the dual monarchy, but in truth Norwegians and Danes were completely equal. Look up any major historical or cultural figure from the era and there’s a good chance he came from what is now Norway, most of the navy was Norwegian and so on. I understand the need to find someone to other so that the national identity grows stronger, but it’s a pity it’s become a narrative of Danish exploitation when that’s completely false.
I say equal, that goes for the political class and nobility, the peasants in both countries were of course almost completely powerless 😉
That’s very interesting. I learned the history of my name through living descendants of my ancestors in Norway. (Two brothers immigrated to America, while a third brother stayed behind in Norway) They were the ones who told me Norway was conquered and ruled by Denmark for a while.
Perhaps it was a mistranslation between us; I had wondered how Norway was able to preserve their country’s heritage and language while being ruled by their neighbor.
