So I’m planing making a new personal email, but I don’t I don’t know how it should be!
examples:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gime your ideas!

BIG EDIT: Thanks for your answers!
This email is personal, and apart from giving it to friends, bank, gov and couple bill companies, I won’t give it anywhere else. Also the privacy people where to much IMO, not easy to remember number and letters.

  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    I have two addresses that both end up in the same inbox. The other is firstname.lastname and I only give that to people/businesses that know my name anyway - everyone else gets the other one which doesn’t include my name.

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Do not use your real name or any other personally identifiable information in your email address.

      • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        And just try reading it over the phone to someone, especially a non-native-english speaker.

        My personal email is first initial with last name, which I can simply tell them without having to try to spell anything out.

        I have a state job tho, and there it’s first initial and middle initial and last name, why the hell… now I can’t email a colleague without looking at a sheet to find their middle initial. Stupid.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I tried that, unfortunately my last name is also a brand of water. So I had to use @lastname.co which was available, but people kept adding the m and I missed on emails so I had to not do that hahahah

  • kboos1@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You should have no fewer than 3 email addresses. 1 for official use that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about giving to another adult or putting on a resume. 2nd for anonymous logins or at least for those frequent but maybe expect a little spam. 3rd you can have as many as you want but you need spam/throw away email addresses.

    That being said, none of them should give away too much information about you but the official email should give just enough of a hint so that someone that knows you might recognize your email address. So never put your full name or an important date/number in your email address.

    After a long explanation why, I recommend first name letter after full last name with a symbol.

    • rose56@lemmy.zipOP
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      3 months ago

      That’s what I actually do, personal for anything related friends, wors and government, second for some subs like events and stuff like these, and third for spams.

  • Bricked@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    For professional email I recommend firstname.lastname@domain because it’s very common and lets people almost uniquely identify you from your email address alone. You could also register a domain such as lastname.com such that you can use [email protected]. Just make sure to use a reputable email host to make sure that your emails don’t end up in spam.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I happen to have first.middle.last@acertainfreehost that I use for government things. I wanted first.last, but there are a few of “me” out there and one of them beat me to it.

    Which is partly to say that you might find that now you’ve posted your ideas here that someone has taken them all before you, so I hope you didn’t use your real name. And I still feel sorry for ol’ Dennis if you didn’t.

    One alternative might be to get your own domain name. Plenty of hosting companies will do a domain and mail forwarding if not some tier of hosting for cheap. Many give a handful of accounts in the base price. (Though it should be noted that it’s a well-known money grab because it’s usually very simple to have <anything>@domain go to one mailbox for collection and sorting elsewhere. Storage management does not have to be at the mailbox level either.)

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Protect your privacy by never using your name, phone, post code, DOB in your email address. Make it something short and easy to remember, as well as easy to say to people when they ask for it. If it’s your personal domain, you can do anything. Perhaps you are an airplane enthusiast, it could be [email protected], but if it’s not your domain you need to be creative, [email protected] easy to remember and not embarrassing like [email protected] .

  • Beth@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I have a work email, an email with my name for only personal/professional contacts outside work, a sign-up email, and my email from 2005 for some reason that I use for dominos.