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> It's also what the original user probably intended You'd be surprised the number of clueless people that have no idea what their email address is. They might
by slig 9y ago
> It's also what the original user probably intended
You'd be surprised the number of clueless people that have no idea what their email address is. They might have the username@(att|aol|yahoo) and believe now it's @gmail.
It's more ignorance than malice in cases like these. FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that.
- phil21 9y agoYep, I have the name of this account as a gmail account as well - and I get legitimately typo'ed e-mail from someone at least once a week. As fun as the replying to shopping list e-mails is, the auto-responders for signup forms do get quite old after a while. And it is truly amazing how long accounts will last with bad e-mail addresses on them (looking at you, Netflix).
- Izkata 9y agoYep, I believe this is exactly what happened to me a few months ago. Someone kept using <myuser>@gmail.com to register for a bunch of different things. Based on the human name attached to a couple of the accounts, I'm fairly sure it was twitter user @<myuser>, which isn't me. I was able to contact one of the sites and they deleted the account believing I just didn't want it anymore (they didn't seem to comprehend that someone would register with the wrong email), but most of them I just ended up using the "lost password" feature. > FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that. Here's the most annoying part: Apple iCloud sent me a "please verify your email address" confirmation email, which I never clicked on. But she was able to use the account anyway, with my email address still attached - I kept getting notifications about someone else repeatedly joining/leaving her "family" group.