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Young age: "xXx_pussyslayer666_xXx@notevilmail.com is a cool e-mail address!"

Early adulthood: "Noooo, I need to be professional, my mail is now johnsmith1994@notevilmail.com!"

Late adulthood: "For the sake of my privacy, I"m now using xXx_pussyslayer666_xXx@privacymail.com."

At 15: I better get an email address that reflects my interests and personality!

At 25: Ok ok my name is the only permanent thing about me so it should be based on my name.

At 35: why am I revealing this much personal information in my email address? I should just have a random jumble of letters.

First initial, last name, never fails. Except when you change your name. Then it fails.

Me at age 6, picking my username (and therefore first email address), knowing that it needs to be unique so I can use it for all accounts online, and also have meaning behind it so I don't look like an idiot when I'm an adult: 🐺🖥️🌐

(this name is 27 years old and counting)

I mean, you are allowed more than one email address

You wouldn't believe the amount of unprofessional email addresses I saw when I used to do hiring. It sounds like a meme but please think before using bigjuicy69@hotmail.com as your contact email!

My mom made my first email on KOL(AOL for kids) and misspelled my name. To this day my gmail has that misspelling in it.

I made a sensible email address with my last name followed by my first initial when google mail first started. Young people are always in awe of the fact that I got to have my name as my email address without adding anything extra to it.

Forever ago, in a post about "applying for jobs after graduating college" tips on Ask[fuckyouspez], I suggested creating a new email address like FirstName.MI.LastName and use that for applying to jobs, definitely don't use your old email like Xx_PussyDestroyer420_xX@hotmail.com.

I got banned from the sub for violating their rule of "don't post emails addresses".

You can forward emails from another address for your resume, and I don’t think siriusxm cares

Rocking my Hotmail since 1998.

Still ocassionaly typo HotMale and get a surprise.

Also still remember the throwaway my friend and I created to sign up for porn site newsletters on dial-up.

yoyokiddo2000@yahoo.com has entered the chat

Luckily I just picked my name and a zip number.

Two problems; zip number is kind of a personal info, and at that age I didn't even know my zip number properly and made an error, which persists 20 years later.

I thought an email adress was like a website. My first email has a www. in front. Luckily my name is so unique, I can create new ones with my name on every service

First initial and full last name, 6 characters which is the minimum for Gmail. Thank you younger responsible self!

Mine is the most original ever: 😐

[First Name][Last Name] at Gmail and Yahoo.

Got the yahoo when they first started offering them, and the Gmail when it was invite only.

Yahoo for 90% of my online correspondence. Gmail for mostly professional / work related stuff.

Fortunately my name and last name aren't that common so I made an email like name.lastname@mail.com for adult stuff

A couple of years ago, I was applying for a work visa, and they needed my college transcripts. Despite matriculating in 19somethingsomethingoldold, my class was one of the first to use an online system that was able to be migrated into multiple subsequent generations of registrar systems, so they needed to have my school email ID, which I hadn't thought about eleventymilliongetoffmylawn years, so THAT meant placing a call to campus IT, and providing enough personal information for them to look it up.

And that, my online friends, is when you are forced to viscerally confront that you were a deeply cringe knowitall who spent way too much time thinking your personality flaws were edgy superpowers and that knowing the name of a random reference in a Bertrand Russell book you barely understood proved how smart you were.

poopybutthole@hotmail.com checking in!

I used to work in IT for a decent sized ISP. There was a list of banned usernames that was fun to peruse, this was in the 2000s. Good times!

That's why I'm still BeanieBaby69@AOL.com.

I can’t imagine what people have to listen to when they ask a customer for their email address. There will be sane people that have a “normal” address for such purposes, then there will be the ones that keep “pussysmasher_hobag@whatever dot com” as some kind of flex and make everyone else have to copy that down.

I am still using an abstraction of my first ever Geocities password in some older accounts that I haven’t scrambled yet. Password requirements were basically nil back last century, it’s important to remember.

You know an adult can just get a domain name and thus get a different email address. Like h4ds3x@yomamas.house

I had to apply to get an invite for gmail back in 03. Still got it. This tracks.