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This is me. I was one of first batches of gmail users when it went public. I have a common name. It’s wild that people will just use my email because they forge
by lvl155 1y ago
This is me. I was one of first batches of gmail users when it went public. I have a common name. It’s wild that people will just use my email because they forget their own email address.
- ghaff 1y agoI haven't gotten any that I know of for years, but when my school initially created email forwarding, it let you choose anything--so I just used my first name which is common but not that common. (To this day if I'm in a meeting with someone who shares it, we regularly get confused when someone else asks something that I have no idea about.) I got all sorts of board meeting minutes and other emails from people who assumed I was that first name early-on.
- tortilla 1y agoSame. Mine is my username here. It did show me early on why web apps need to verify email ownership.
- firesteelrain 1y agoYep, got mine in 2006.
- masfuerte 1y agoI'm in the same boat. I assume people do it because some website is demanding an email address and they don't want to give one, so they give the "default" one.
- pentamassiv 1y agoI have to admit, I do this. Sorry John Smith! I always assumed that the "default" email addresses get flooded with spam nowadays. I can't imagine the email address lee@gmail.com or similar to be usable by now