Email Address Stereotypes
It’s interesting how much you can tell about someone (or think you can tell about someone) from their email address, both name and domain. Having begun to use email more frequently recently, and therefore exposing myself to a wider variety of email addresses, these judgemental stereotypes have lessened slightly, but I still react in certain ways to certain addresses. Thus:
name@msn.com - moderately cool; was using msn messenger right at the start
name@hotmail.com - run-of-the-mill, average for 18/19-yos.
name@hotmail.co.uk - late adopter of the whole “electronic mail” thing
name@ntlworld.com - my gran uses this. Proprietary ISP accounts are so dead. (see also: @virgin.net, @aol.com, @tiscali.co.uk, @btinternet.com)
name@yahoo.co.uk - are you a spammer or something? Why would you use such a thing?
name@owndomainname.co.uk / .me.uk / etc - tosser.
any name which contains {xXx / angel / babes / 2k7} - Ned (=chav). Please get a new account. Now. Unless the tangoed look is one to which you aspire.
name@googlemail.com - someone that knows something about computers / the interwebs and is pretty all-round amazing. Bonus points if they know that typing @gmail.com delivers it to the same person.
Just saying…
