I’m 25 and have had my AOL email since before I was born, set up by my parents. In the late 90’s and early 00’s every now and then they would send a few photos to it perhaps with an accompanying story of anything that they’d want me to remember. I then used it as my main email and have continued to till this day.
During a job interview today I was told I was great fit but they weren’t sure about my email address!
Apparently they can tell a lot about a person just from the fact they have an AOL email address in 2023.
Has anyone else had something similar, is it actually a big deal?
Tell them that you keep an AOL email for security reasons. Gmail is part of a search engine who has access to your emails and protonmail makes you seem like a whistleblower. AOL is a safe in-between which noone suspects and you don’t worry about hacks since no one uses them.