memes

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 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 [email protected]. Sold it for £1000.

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.

Probably more a problem for Americans all being named John Smith

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.

I’m so old I was able to get my kids Gmail with his name.

I got my gmail as my name like a year ago because I just have an uncommon name (Denvil)

My partner has his [email protected]. 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.

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.

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.

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 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?

You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn't scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it's ecosystem by "facilitating" logins and so on. If you don't pay with money, you pay with your data.

mailbox.org
posteo.net

Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.

I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.

Yeah, I got my name when gmail was 'invite only' :/

It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications ... using my email ([email protected]) instead of ([email protected]) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got 'just my name' and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.

And most of the time this shit is sent from a '[email protected]' so I can't even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.

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.

I was there when it was invite only, child. They used to have an IM chat too.

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 own the domain for my last name ([email protected]) and get people all the time insisting it can't be my real email. I also own a short domain based on my last name (like last.nm) which is very useful and techy people think it's pretty cool.