Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Please Sir, May I Have Another E-Mail Address?

This morning I created another gmail account.  After all, everyone needs 4 gmail accounts, right?  I've got one for my fictious business, one for my fictious name, one for school, and now one with a future professional certification.  Then there's the corporate e-mail I have from work, the free e-mail addresses that came with my domain, an AOL mail account I set up for an online class but never used, a couple defunct yahoo accounts that are the result of a failed eBay enterprise, and the hotmail account I've had for over 10 years.

I've tried to cut the hotmail account loose many times but I just can't pull the trigger.  I've had it for so long, I feel completely vested.  For example, my screen name is [my real name]009@hotmail.com.  Why 009?  Well, 009 was my pager code back in the day.  Waaay back in the day.  If your under the age of 25 you have no idea what I'm talking about.  In the 90's, if you wanted to get a hold of someone you had to page them (with numbers only).  

Kids today think they are so cool with their LOL's and OMG's.  I used to say hello with a 0, two 7's, a 3, and a 4.

When paging, I'd leave a call back number and my pager code so the person would know that it was me.  

Back then only drug dealers, doctors, and Zack Morris had cell phones, and pay phones were everywhere.  

So, if I needed to get a hold of my mom to pick me up, I'd page her: 8675309 009.  If she didn't recognize Jenny's number at least she would know that I was the one paging her.  It's hilarious that my pager code made it's way onto an e-mail address that I still have today.

I'm beginning to think that I have a problem with all these e-mail addresses.  This might explain why I don't feel the need to have a MySpace or Facebook profile.  I have so many online personalities that I can socially network with myself.  Please tell me I'm not the only one...

2 Comments:

Anonymous andrea your wife johnson said...

no, babe, you ARE the only one with fifty million email addresses! but i will love you regardless.

April 8, 2009 11:31 AM  
Anonymous Adam said...

You have an unhealthy amount of email addresses Bryan ;)

I've consolidated down to three - my main email (gmail), yahoo account for flickr and my domain email which forwards to my gmail.

April 8, 2009 10:40 PM  

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