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 brian@gmail.com. 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 was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn’t matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh…
Google hasn’t really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?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.
But their response, it didn’t thrill us.
They locked the doors and tried to kill us.
We escaped from that gas
Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass
I thought it was an April fools gag.
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’ve gotten that a few times from people, I got mine when it was still in beta. Don’t use it anymore because google, switched to Proton.
I heard that Proton email addresses have developed a reputation for often belonging to scammers and spammers. Do you know if any of your outgoing email has ended up in anyone’s spam box?
Can’t say that I do, but I also don’t know how I’d ever discover that what you’re asking happened.
Heh yeah, good point. Maybe I’ll just try it for a while
My partner has his lastname@gmail.com. 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.
