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?

  • Complex_Solutions_20@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    set up

    firstname.lastname@gmail.com

    (or if you are unlucky and have a common name,

    firstname.middlename.lastname@gmail.com

    ) - actually you can put the dots anywhere in any gmail email address or even ignore them. they are not relevant to gmail.

    LMAO if you have a common name none of those work. I’ve never worked somewhere that there aren’t at least a couple people with my same first, middle, and last name in the global address book…and I’m sure there are thousands of “me” in the world.