So I’m planing making a new personal email, but I don’t I don’t know how it should be!
examples:
DennisBusey@mail.com
DennisB@mail.com
DBusey@mail.com
Gime your ideas!
BIG EDIT: Thanks for your answers!
This email is personal, and apart from giving it to friends, bank, gov and couple bill companies, I won’t give it anywhere else. Also the privacy people where to much IMO, not easy to remember number and letters.
How is my email? It’s fine, and it thanks you for asking! ☺️
Lol good one.
firstname@firstname-initial.ca is mine for “professional” use
Lastname@gmail.com
Firstname@lastname.com…the result of having an extremely rare last name.
I tried that, unfortunately my last name is also a brand of water. So I had to use @lastname.co which was available, but people kept adding the m and I missed on emails so I had to not do that hahahah
Shit, we found John Tutamail!!!
i never use my real name or any identify credentials, i often come up/make up words that sound similar to real ones.
Protect your privacy by never using your name, phone, post code, DOB in your email address. Make it something short and easy to remember, as well as easy to say to people when they ask for it. If it’s your personal domain, you can do anything. Perhaps you are an airplane enthusiast, it could be 747@MyPersonalDomain.org, but if it’s not your domain you need to be creative, Seven47@mail.com easy to remember and not embarrassing like HotGrannie1912@coolmail.com .
Pretty happy with that, it wasn’t available 10 years ago, someone obviously gave up squatting it.
Because it’s my domain I can give anyone possibly spammy any first part and still get it.
Do not use your real name or any other personally identifiable information in your email address.
You should have no fewer than 3 email addresses. 1 for official use that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about giving to another adult or putting on a resume. 2nd for anonymous logins or at least for those frequent but maybe expect a little spam. 3rd you can have as many as you want but you need spam/throw away email addresses.
That being said, none of them should give away too much information about you but the official email should give just enough of a hint so that someone that knows you might recognize your email address. So never put your full name or an important date/number in your email address.
After a long explanation why, I recommend first name letter after full last name with a symbol.
That’s what I actually do, personal for anything related friends, wors and government, second for some subs like events and stuff like these, and third for spams.
If you’re privacy consious, then I would suggest not using anything related to your real life, let alone hobbies, name, birth year. Use completely random words! Tip if you’re pretty privacy consious: Use alias emails and connect those with your main email. I suggest services like AnonAddy, SimpleLogin.
I have 3 gmail accounts which I extremely rarely open or use. Email address of first one is my nickname+birth year. Second one is like a Chinese version of my actual nickname, I guess this could be counted as a pseudonym. Third one is full name+birth year. My Proton Mail email address is a username based on my hobby. My Tuta Mail address is made of completely random words and random numbers.
Why do you need to use your full name? I’ve never had issues with my eLiTeh4x0r@email.com style email account. Not with official government stuff and not with work related things.
eLiTeh4x0r@email.com is frustrating to attempt to spell out to the clerk at the other side of the counter.
And just try reading it over the phone to someone, especially a non-native-english speaker.
My personal email is first initial with last name, which I can simply tell them without having to try to spell anything out.
I have a state job tho, and there it’s first initial and middle initial and last name, why the hell… now I can’t email a colleague without looking at a sheet to find their middle initial. Stupid.
E like easter, L like love, I like Iron, T like toast, E like Easter again, H like Hood, 4, X like X, 0 and R like Ring @ email.com.
And you have to memorize it! Cause giving it daily its gonna be nuts.“M, as in Mancy”
I have a work email, an email with my name for only personal/professional contacts outside work, a sign-up email, and my email from 2005 for some reason that I use for dominos.
my personal email does not feature my name in any form
I prefer shorter emails like “dbusey@…” but to each his own.
Same. I use my initials and a number, so DB7@email.com.
Indeed.
I never have anything that can identify my real name in the address. Why make it easy for data scrapers?
Is this common? I thought we were supposed to use FullNameNumber@Email.com for personal, and just avoid using it for any spammy stuff. Instead use it for Work and contacting real people
Maybe common, but not advised. The only place I willingly follow real name protocols in emails is in dedicated work intranets where corporate policy dictates how addresses go.
Anything on the open web is anonymized as much as I can make it. Fake address, fake user details, everything. There is no privacy in systems connected to the unrestricted internet.
For stuff like government and bills receipts, mainly and then for friends. I won’t give it to subscribe on YouTube or anything like this, because I have another email for stuff like these.
You can register an email address as “jigglypuff666forever” or whatever nonsense you want. The government certainly doesn’t give a shit, and as long as your family and friends know that a specific string of numbers and letters means “you” in the address book, why does it matter?
If you’re worried about professionalism, I don’t really see much difference between “johnqpublic@email.com” and “greenthumbmcgee@email.com” except one tells the world your full name, and the other just gives away that you like gardening. Both are equally G-rated and acceptable, but only one is a security nightmare.
Still, I want my name in it, so people know it’s and only me! Not just couple letters and numbers, that can confuse others.
That’s no guarantee. I met a guy with my same first and (fairly rare) last name when I traveled to another city. Now I know to whom the banking emails I get belong. And, while they practice better data security now, a few years ago I could tell you every time he bounced a check.
Not guarantee if you live in USA I should guess? My name and last name is not so common in my country.
I ended up on first@full.domain
