I have 3 emails that I consider "in use", but I actually only
use two of them.
The first is my main address, a gmail account. I've had it for over a decade now so it's old and embarrassing. You know, the kind you don't tell anyone you know IRL and even hesitate to tell online friends about. Only a handful of people know it and that's either because they knew me back when I was proud of it (lol) or I trust them enough IRL not to laugh at me forever and added them on Gchat. It's the email I tend to default to when I want to sign up somewhere but don't want to give out personal information (so most online accounts...) and it's also the catch-all account for my other email addresses. (I don't think this is a good idea but it's going to be such a hassle to fix this that I've been putting it off for
years. @_@;) Someone seems to think they own the variant of my address without a dot in the middle so occasionally I get emails from Sony informing me in Brazilian Portuguese (I think??) that my PSN preorder did not go through because I had no funds in my wallet. And sometimes I just plain get his porn website email notifications. Great. :(
My second email is
[email protected] (except, you know, my name) and it's the one I tend to give out to people I know. It's the one on my resume. And so on. It's linked to my embarrassing gmail so any emails I receive to or send from this email address go through the embarrassing one. There was one point a few years ago when I realized that for years I'd been sending emails to people "From:
[email protected] (on behalf of
[email protected])" and I just about died. It was an easy thing to fix, but for a good year or so I was paranoid that I'd log out of Gmail and log back in on the other account any time I needed to send professional emails just so I could be sure of the mail headers, hahaha.
The last one is my school email, which I really only use for signing up for things for students and whatnot. (It's not a .edu since we don't use that TLD in Canada for our universities but it's the equivalent--anything that asks for a Canadian institution's student email recognizes it, you know?) I know most people at my school tend to use their school email as their main email but that's so backwards to me. I'm pretty sure the emails are only valid for maybe a year or two after you graduate so wouldn't they have to completely redo their online address book once they're out of school? Or maybe they just have no intention of ever talking to people they know from school once they're out, hahaha. Sometimes I have to submit assignments from this email, but I rarely use it otherwise so I have it attached to my Google account and use Gmail for sending/receiving its emails.
you can tell i'm procrastinating on something because i just wrote way too much about three email addresses.
