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.
That’s pretty good, for how bad it is.
I have a pretty old gmail address that’s fmlast@gmail, and several years ago there was a lady with fmlast12@gmail who kept leaving the numbers off. It wasn’t that bad though, and for one or two important things I replied to help.
it happens to me too, though my format is lastname.firstinitial, so I have more potential for confusion as my last name isn’t super uncommon.
people just sign up for stuff with it. sometimes banks even.
Ha ha this happens to me so much. I even had to help a poor dude out because his account (and stuff getting delivered) all was under my email.
On a side note, I got the firstnamelastname@gmail, but Gmail often proposed the firstname.lastname@gmail in autocomplete, with my image and all, so I just “recovered” it. Now I have both when I’m trying to ditch Google 🤷🏼♀️
Gmail addresses with and without a dot are actually identical. Mine has a dot but I also get emails without the dot.
There must be some names that invalidates your claim (I’m just bewildered if it’s true)
Like Abc Def and Ab Cdef style. Or is firs.tnamelastname valid too?
Learned something today then! 👍
Edit: doesn’t work for me
Ugh same. My first name is very common, last name moderately uncommon. I’ve gotten loads of stuff. Various quotes and invoices (vet, mechanic, window installation), invitations to child care groups, family gathering invitations (that one I think was the person writing the email address, not the person with my name).
Most of the time I just immediately unsubscribe or block or whatever and move on, but there’s some (like the child care group) I had to reach out to because that could be potentially dangerous.
Get your own email right, people! It shouldn’t be my responsibility to manage your email. Some of that shit includes your home address too.
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.
Wouldnt you get extra spam for having such a simple name?
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.
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!!
Probably more a problem for Americans all being named John Smith
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.
I’ll never understand why anyone would ever use their real name as a username. Why would you intentionally dox yourself?
For email? Business.
Still wouldn’t do it.
Edit: Also, using Gmail as your businesses email address is extremely unprofessional. You should be using your own domain. You can always forward it to Gmail.
Bro over here using [email protected] for job applications.
Lol it’s admin@[my.domain]
Pete the plasterer isn’t setting up his own domain, you absolute goober. There’s a lot of small businesses that are just [email protected]
Not everyone has the knowledge/interest/money to buy a domain and set it up with their email, let alone switch their logins to a new email.
When we get resumes, applicants that don’t have some variation of firstname.lastname@… as their email tend to go on the bottom of the pile.
Good, cause I would never want to work for a company that petty.
Previously you claimed that using the Gmail domain is “extremely unprofessional”. On the other hand, a company that considers email addresses with real names to be more professional is “petty”. 🤔
There’s a lot of people here who have no idea how little the general public cares about technology.
I fully agree with you.
Because a lot of times you specifically want people to know who you are lol.
My son at the bank with the director (the manager wasn’t there) opening his bank account:
So first name, your mail is: hellfireturtleboonstox@gmail …
Son:🥸
Just pause for a few seconds and think before you type
I stand by what I said. This is basic privacy 101
What if you need to make money though lol
That’s why I have a job.
My work email is my first and last name haha
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
This is a pet peeve of mine and I’m sorry to be taking it out on you.
Protecting your data is the biggest exercise in futility in the modern era. You are using Lemmy. I don’t care what services you pay for, someone has your data. They in turn sell it to a third party, who also sells it. The world has your data and paying money to hide your data from google is really stupid.
Unless you live in an outhouse in the woods with no internet, your data no longer belongs to you. Do you think your ISP doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Do you think your bank doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Let me guess you pay Generic VPN $10/month to protect your data. Oh you bought the Fairphone and paid extra for next day shipping so you could release your data from the clutches of google. Oh wait, you use Linux and personally hand picked every line of code so your data won’t ever be stolen.
Enough with the crap about protecting your data. It’s a scam and the money you spend every month on data protection is better spent on a fleshlight.
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
freeincluded 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
Like the other commenter said, it is included in the price. It is called OpenTalk and is as secure as it gets.
Also tutamail
Can vouch for TutaMail, currently on it as I attempt all the hurdles of serting up a self-hosted mail solution.
You should really refrain from trying that, email is one of the few things youre better off not hosting yourself.
You should own the domain of your email addresses, but please use a hosting service, for your own good
Oh believe me, I’m well aware lol. I’ve already got the setup you’re describing. It’ll probably never amount to anything, but I’m still going to try and see if I can get something that most email providers will send mail to and accept mail from, without putting in the spam folder.
Gmail and MS also make other providers jump through crazy hoops too to let users create a new email, lest they be flagged as a “spam” provider and blacklisted by the 2 services.
The modern internet sucks.
Last year, I saw an article written by a recruiter about how recruiters are sort of biased against you if you use a non-GMail account because it “feels” like you’re on old tech and out of touch and, therefore, will be hard to place and, Void, did it make be so mad.
Purelymail is also an amazing service. 10€ per year for unlimited storage and addresses, and you can add your own domains.
Been using them with a custom domain for about 8 months and love it, no issues at all.
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.
Have you RSVPed for the soccer fundraiser yet? -_-
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 never thought I’d meet the inventor of blogs!
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.
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”…
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 recently signed up for a new email. I check the address sometimes before entering it somewhere. It’s not hard.
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
