It felt great signing up for loops.Video when it got announced and getting [email protected]
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 never thought I’d meet the inventor of blogs!
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.
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
Hah, no don’t worry ;)
or real name.
Or real phone
Joe Bloggs is the UK equivalent of Joe Shmoe, John Doe etc - a common placeholder name for the average person.
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.
Have you RSVPed for the soccer fundraiser yet? -_-
I was there when it was invite only, child. They used to have an IM chat too.
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 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.
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”
The hangouts app was actually sick. You could connect to Google voice and your actual phone number allowing you to:
- place phone calls from voice on your computer or phone
- place phone calls from your actual number on your phone
- send text messages from voice on your computer or phone
- send text messages from your actual number on your phone (and possibly computer)
- send ims from your computer or phone
It was available within gmail or on its own dedicated site, and it automatically collated conversations regardless of send medium.
It made communication free and easy regardless of what device I was using–then they rebranded it and made it IM only–then they killed it.
I got my gmail as my name like a year ago because I just have an uncommon name (Denvil)
Denvil my man, have a great day!!
I’m so old I was able to get my kids Gmail with his name.
And I can still remember how…
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 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
Whoa, you’re friends with Elon Musk’s kid??
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.
If he’s active duty Army, try [email protected] [email protected]. if it’s a somewhat common name try adding .1 after the name and incrementing up if necessary.
As a General, he’s likely in charge of some really big organization, like a whole military base or CCMD (combatant command). Try looking through the emails you get to see if you can find some context for where he might work, then search for an about page or contact page on the public web. You won’t get him directly but someone who knows how to route the information up to him.
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 have firstname.lastname@ Gmail, again from when it was invite only, as well as yahoo, and Hotmail from when it hadn’t been bought by MS
Thankfully only ≈ 800 people worldwide have the same spelling as my first name none of which are older than me, and none of them have the unique combo of my first and last name, so I don’t have those shenanigans happening
Wait until a fantasy author gets hold of your name and has a very successful 4 series before it turns into miserable dross. Not so unique any more are ya, Khalesi?
I thought it was an April fools gag.
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.
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.
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.Same for me. The lack of email validation is ridiculous.
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.
When I was growing up, this was all fields… gestures towards ocean
Old Man Peabody owned all of this!
Twin Emails Mall
What? The curtains?
When I think back on the times I ordered things from eBay by walking to the local convenient store, getting a money order for the winning bid amount and sticking it in an envelope to mail it to some random address for someone I’d never met expecting I was going to get an object back for the money, it’s crazy that it worked for me every time. My brother would also buy cards online (basketball, baseball) and had a local shelf at a card shop here. He’d buy cards at the store when they were cheaper than they sold online, and those online that he could sell higher in the store. That led him down a hole where he used Bitcoin at one point for trading cards. He’s one of those people that had 9 Bitcoin or some shit left with the key on a flash drive or something. At the time that was probably $7 or some shit so he lost track of it. Just had the numbers in his excel document with what was left from the purchases. He probably formatted it for use for some school project or something and never thought twice about it. Crazy to think that could have been sold for near a million dollars now haha
In a galaxy far away 🎶
Naboo was under an attack
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.
That’s neat. I had my email on a .social domain and many websites would say it was not a valid address. Now I’m back to my [email protected], fuck everyone.
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.Exactly the same for me. I was worried people will not get it but it has never been a problem for almost 2 years now.
