First name guy right here. Bow before me, peasants!
I got [email protected] when gmail was still ‘invite only’.
The one drawback to that is there is a General in the U.S. Army with my exact name who doesn’t understand how email works and apparently gives out my email address as his. I wish I knew what his actual email address was so I could let people know what it is. I bet he’s missing out on a lot of VA functions and barber appointments because he couldn’t be assed to remember his actual email address.
I have first name lastname too. And tbh… It’s a bit of a curse.
I have 2 swedish people wirh the same name as me give it to whatever websites they sign up for at random.
(I’m pretty sure its two people, but oculd also be one person)
I know somebody who got his first name on Xbox Live. And he didn’t even make an account until he got a 360.
Same thing happened to my friend xfggxil65
I was there when it was invite only, child. They used to have an IM chat too.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they’ve never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they’ve had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says “we should run the government like a business”
Oh shit yeah! I remember begging a friend who got one to send me an invite. Didnt you only get like 3 invites to begin with or something?
I can’t remember what site it was, I think it was maybe Toms Hardware for some reason. But people with extra invites would post and you could request one. That’s how I got mine, no begging necessary :)
I wanna say it was more than that, I don’t remember the number but I remember saying “damn that’s a lot.” I wanna say it was maybe like 10?
It was 10 yep.
Fair enough i thought they started at 3 and then bumped it up later
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.
One of my impostors signed up for adult friend finder and tinder using my address. Try explaining that to the wife. I also get important mortgage documents, consulting invoices, family gathering plans, you name it. The ones in Austin TX and London are especially egregious.
Same for me. The lack of email validation is ridiculous.
hah ! that’s funny as hell.
There’s a guy carrying my name, he works as something of an art dealer, don’t know the specifics. I have been included in many conversations. The price some paintings go for is… surprising. Oh and one of the same bunch also runs a christian scouting club or something.
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.
May I ask, where do you come from? I use
firstname@lastname.devdomain, and even elderly people never question it. When I bought it, I was considering.pl(my country’s TLD), because I thought that people would be suspicious of the.dev, but suprisingly they aren’t.
I had to be invited.
When I was growing up, this was all fields… gestures towards ocean
What? The curtains?
Old Man Peabody owned all of this!
Twin Emails Mall
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.
Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.
Huge vote for mailbox.org. They have calendars, contract lists, online storage, etc. I’ve been able to get rid of Google/gmail almost entirely from my phone.
Also free video conferences!
I don’t know anything about mailbox.org, but I’m sure it’s way less sketchy than Google. It’s just interesting you would praise their free video conferences after posting “if you don’t pay with money, you pay with data.”
Should have said ‘included’ rather than ‘free’ since it is a paid service
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.
Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.
A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.
I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.
Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.
There is still a woman in the Miami area who uses my email for everything. I’ve even received her completed tax documents from her accountant and was told to “disregard” when I replied to it. It’s been over ten years. My name isn’t even Alicia.
I’ve had someone’s emails for years, every once in a while I get a new one from the doctor or when they need to recover another account its so weird. But they use the same email but with a dot. Even their google recovery emails from another account
I never thought I’d meet the inventor of blogs!
Same, the best one was the dude who created an account with my email but his own phone number. So I text him to try and scare him with the fact that some random dude got hold of his private info. He was unfazed and replied “my nephew set it up for me, guess we’ve got the same email address”…
I really hope that is not your real email
Joe Bloggs is the UK equivalent of Joe Shmoe, John Doe etc - a common placeholder name for the average person.
or real name.
Or real phone
Hah, no don’t worry ;)
I recently signed up for a new email. I check the address sometimes before entering it somewhere. It’s not hard.
“Do not cite the deep magic to me…”
I made a gmail with my name like 2 years ago, I just have an uncommon name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same! Even on Facebook, there is no one with my name (including me). I’ve recently accquired a
lastname.tlddomain, and it wasn’t taken already :DI’ve tried using my name in email/accounts for decades and never got it. I have a name so common people think I’m making it up when I tell them. It also makes me not too worried about posting it online, because even if you knew it and my location you still probably couldn’t find the right person.
Nice to meet you John Smith.
Nice x3
I wish I had a slightly more common name sometimes tbf, cause it never appears on coke bottles or any other novelty that includes names lol. Googling my name just gives a result for a prince from the 14 century, and the year I was born there were only 3 other people with my name according to a naming website haha, not including my last name of course which is also one of the rarer ones from what I gather, so ye
In a galaxy far away 🎶
Naboo was under an attack
And of course, gmail is the only email provider.
(/s)
with DKIP and FARCS, it basically might as well be
When gmail was invite I got my name, my ex wife’s and both my kid’s. I also got a couple of regular words, for other uses. I get a ton of mail for other people with the same last name.
