Do you use your legal name as your email address? What are the pros and cons in doing so?

[SpaceGalaxy]

Example: johnsmith@email. com

[SeriouslyFunny00]

I have two emails, for work and personal purposes. I use my legal name for my student/work account and an 'alias' for the personal account.

[Bethany22]

cons are that you have to worry about people knowing who you are when you want to be anonymous

[Account]

I have multiple emails. I have a regular one, one I use for work, one I use for game accounts, an old one, one I use for sending my cv to various companies etc.
Only the one I use for my work technically has my first and a part of my last name. Also the one I use often/regularly/ has some letters of first and last name all together, but some letters are removed.

[WonderBell99]

Never in a million years. Even my “legit” email address sounds like a burner account. It’s something similar to: mositurizersarecool71@gmail. com. I do have around 4 different email accounts that I created because I was bored, and none of them have my legal name on it. I don’t even enter my real birthday on my gmail.. lol. I usually just put something random like “14th Sept 1978” or whatever

My first name is very unique, so it’s risky to use it as my email address.

[Drumlin2001]

Kinda. I have a junk e-mail, which I use generally when signing up for websites. I then have an e-mail which uses my surname (eg Mr. Smith@email. com) for more important specific things (utilities, insurance, banks etc). I get far less spam on my second e-mail.

[AviatorTom]

I have several email addresses, all different. Most have some form of my legal name but not the full name.

[whereismyjohnny]

I have a few emails. The one I use for important stuff has my legal name in it. The same goes for my official uni email address. The mail that I use for some random stuff (shopping, socials, etc) doesn't include my legal name.

[JustiReno]

I’ve had it for 20yrs, looks better on job applications maybe? But I do get a lot of spam, but probably cuz I had the same email for 20yrs+

[NathanDavis]

that would be the worst idea ever... under my particular circumstances... lol

[musicbrain5]

Not for my personal email, no. My work email has my full name.

[joeldalton]

I use first initial, middle initial, and last name. It’s what grownups do. You don’t want to apply for jobs with the email address of pussyeater69420@gmail. com.

[Havthrills]

Never. I make up odd names. Like amerastio20. Lol

[Anonymous]

If do. Don't know about this pros and cons. I don't worry about it to be honest