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?

  • StryderXGaming@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    AOL has been hacked and sold across the internet SO many times. Where other companies have sectioned breaches here and there I can think of at least one article where the ENTIRE aol database was leaked, passwords and all.

    Yes you should ditch them, and most are saying go with gmail and while that is the easiest and fairly safe, still a ton of data harvesting. If you want no spam and a legit service I’ve been loving proton mail.