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.
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I have just my last name, and get signed up for all kinds of bullshit by people with my last name because they'll enter firstnamelastname@gmail.com when signing up for stupid shit.
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In a galaxy far away...
Naboo was under an attack.
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation in
To maybe... cutting them a... little slack.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Tbf im the only person on the planet with my name. I think that’s pretty neat.
For context, I have a made up last name so I know everyone on earth with my family name
In my 40+ years alive, I've never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.
My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I've ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.
Combine the two, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet with my specific name. I've never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.
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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"
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.
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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?
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I own the domain for my last name (firstname@lastname.countrycode) 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Same for me. The lack of email validation is ridiculous.
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imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.
do you mean the holy grail of
or the slightly uncommon
I got firstnamelastname@gmail.com 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.
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I made a gmail with my name like 2 years ago, I just have an uncommon name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don't think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.
They still exist. You can grab a new one for free whenever. They only expire if you don't use them for ~6 months, and then you just ask for a new one.
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