• nerin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I got firstlastname on Gmail and I find it a curse now. There are old people all over the place with the same name that simply can’t remember their email address and end up using mine. I have had everything from non profit fun runs in North Carolina to aerial crop photos from Idaho that apparently farmers pay for? It was like a $100 a month service… . Luckily I use first.lastname so I can filter out their emails quickly since they never have the . Occasionally when it’s an email from a small company or something like that i send responses but most of it I just junk now.

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      1 year ago

      i have what i imagine is a fairly unusual variation: my firstname.lastname is pretty common in the english speaking world, but my last name is apparently derived from a place if you go back far enough, so i use firstname.of.lastname. subtle but different.