• BillMurray@lemmy.ca
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    First initial and full last name, 6 characters which is the minimum for Gmail. Thank you younger responsible self!

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    13 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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      4 hours ago

      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.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Rocking my Hotmail since 1998.

    Still ocassionaly typo HotMale and get a surprise.

    Also still remember the throwaway my friend and I created to sign up for porn site newsletters on dial-up.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I still use my aim screen name as my spam email since roughly age 10. If aol ever shuts down, I’ll be in trouble.

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    15 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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      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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    15 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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    16 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 dot com” as some kind of flex and make everyone else have to copy that down.

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    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.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    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.