I had an account from 2005 with a bunch of email with my high-school friends. I then made another account using my real name, which became my primary. A year or

I had an account from 2005 with a bunch of email with my high-school friends. I then made another account using my real name, which became my primary. A year or two ago I wanted to reach out to one of those old friends, and knowing that I had their email address in the contacts of that old account, tried to log in. Nope, got stuck in an infinite loop of errors and impossible security challenges. Ultimately I gave up and used another way of contacting that old friend. The experience also made me feel even better than I already did about having migrated to a domain I owned and a non-Google provider for my primary personal email. I also don't use any 'identity services' because I have no basis of trust in any of them.