How many email addresses do you currently use?

Started by VeranithasVI October 14th, 2014 1:28 AM
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VeranithasVI

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Age 28
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Seen August 28th, 2015
Posted August 28th, 2015
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8.7 Years
I've always been a rather big fan of creating various email addresses (not even sure why; probably so I can sign up for something again when I hate my username xP) but for the past 3-4 months I've been rolling with only two. My personal email address and my online/gaming email address. I don't mind sharing, soooo;

- [email protected] (gaming email)
- [email protected] (personal email)

How many do you guys have? Any particular reason for having multiple or just one email address(es)?

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Corvus of the Black Night

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Age 30
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Seen January 9th, 2015
Posted January 9th, 2015
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14.3 Years
I use 4.

One is a general email account that I use for stuff.

One is a spam email account that I don't care about.

One is my work email, automatically assigned to me.

One is a rarely used email for more professional things, and for keeping contact with a few people.

Candy

Age 26
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Posted August 22nd, 2020
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14.3 Years
I got... 5... 6 I guess? :/

One at gmail as well as one at yahoo for personal uses.
One at gmail as well as two at yahoo for online uses.
One from my university that is automatically assigned to me.

Remember Crystal users, you have a PC email address as well. :v
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Age 27
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New York City
Seen June 23rd, 2019
Posted June 23rd, 2019
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9.2 Years
you guys are being really stupid posting your emails on here.

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i have like 500 emails but i only use one.
I know you're joking but it's the internet. Nothing can be hidden lol.

Nah

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I currently have 4 email accounts. 1 of them is a general email account that I made years ago that's sorta becoming more like a spam account. Then there's the one that's basically my dumping ground for PC notifications (which I hardly ever check because Control Panel+PC's notification system > email notifications). Then I have this one that my college gives all students, but that one will be gone somewhat soon since I've graduated and don't plan to go to grad school. The last one and most recent one is an account that I want to become my sort of official email account for work purposes and all that.
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Age 31
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Posted October 18th, 2017
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9.3 Years
I have three. One is for basically internet/fun-related things (such as signing up for forums, etc), one is for more serious real life stuff like job applications and involves the usage of my full real name, and there is a third I recently created that is for my Paypal only (because I take commissions on Deviantart). It is of the name I am going to have in the future. Once I change my real name, I'll be phasing out the second and using the third for that sort of thing.

Cherrim

Age 34
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Toronto
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20.4 Years
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. @[email protected];) 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.


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I use two. One is my main email, and the other I use in case I've used my main one... so you could say it's an alternate email. I've used gmail for a long time now because it's so much easier to create email accounts with them. They don't give you the hard ass captchas used to discourage bots. My i.heart.mega.hitt one got bombarded with spam and was one of the emails that was leaked when some idiot decided to hack gmail. So, I ditched that one and made sure my other two were safe, and they both were. Thank god.

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Posted December 27th, 2014
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I have one personal one with no mention of my real name. Then I have one plain Gmail one that's my firstmiddlelastname, because I needed it for college applications. Then I have my main one, firstnamelastname alumni email for college.

Did you guys know that if you put a + in your gmail when you give it to someone, you can put whatever you want after it and it will still send to you? So if you give Domino's [email protected], then all the emails will be delivered to [email protected] with that tag. Then you know if someone's sold your email, because the email it's actually sending to will tell you which company you gave it to.


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TRIFORCE89

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Age 33
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Seen November 25th, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2016
8,122 posts
19.1 Years
I have three.

I have my online username email address, which used to be my main of sorts. But it's pretty spammy now adays. If I have to sign up for something, I'll use this.

I have my actual name email address, which is now my real main. I think I've had both of these for about the same amount of time. Ages. Since I could first get a Gmail address. I use this one the most for communication with actual people.

I have my work email address, which is just for work. Two jobs prior to this too, so I had those addresses. The government email address was kinda nifty.

I'm old and my school email address is no longer active. Hated it. Rarely used it unless forced to for school.

In my two Gmail addresses, I used two addresses (exactly the same as what I have now) from my ISP at the time. Once I got Gmail, I mostly stopped using them. I think for a long while they were probably still my login on like MSN and such. lol

Pendraflare

Age 32
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Pennsylvania
Seen July 30th, 2021
Posted March 29th, 2021
6,263 posts
9.8 Years
I have three - one's my Gmail which is my main one, a Yahoo account that I still have and have had for almost eight years but don't really use anymore, and one AOL address that I use for entertainment related stuff like forums.
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I have like 200 legit because when I sign up for things online I don't want to use my personal email and get daily spam so I just make a new one for whatever I am signing up for. I then forget the password to it/its name and have to create another new one for when I sign up for something else. The only email i really use is my personal one and I don't even use it that much tbh.