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 (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) 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 'noreply@wherever.net' so I can't even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
And here I am, with a firstname@lastname.de 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.
Sounds good until dozens of people around the world all use it as their email too. So many receipts and job applications. I have enough documents for an Australian with the same name as me, I could easily steal their identity. A 12 year old in England set up an Instagram with my email and I ended up with access to their full account. Also had some fun the time I was included in a maga family email chain.
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.
do you mean the holy grail of
or the slightly uncommon
“Do not cite the deep magic to me…”
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 al.lastname@gmail.com
I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.
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?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.
Probably more a problem for Americans all being named John Smith
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.
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.
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.
I thought it was an April fools gag.
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.
imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.
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.
I’m so old I was able to get my kids Gmail with his name.
I had firstnameLastname@gmail.com but deleted my account recently.
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 regret having gmail
It felt great signing up for loops.Video when it got announced and getting firstname@loops.video
And I can still remember how...
I had to be invited.
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 really don't understand this. I just made a new gmail with my first and last name. No other symbols or anything. I did that last year. I can't possibly have that unique of a name compared to others.
Same thing happened with my nephew over the 4th.
