An Open Letter to Internet Users

To all those folks who received an iMac for Christmas from their well meaning children or cousins:

Stop. Please, enough with the email addresses like 'mikeysMom02132002@excite.com', or "jordys_aunt@hotmail.com', or 'iluvmybabybrian@home.com'. Just, spare me your Freudian laden problems that your email addresses proclaim to the online community. Can't you define yourself some other way than by your relationship to the newest generation in your family? I'm certain they are very cute, but aren't you a person too? Do you have any other qualities that can be used to formulate an email address? For example: catLuvr7890, machineheadrox, or even rocknrollmama. All those are better than using your relationship to the child in your life as an online moniker or email address.

Thanks

Btw, Ms. Swallows? you might want to consider changing your email address to something other than your last name@cox.net. Just a suggestion.

Comments

[n]

I'm finding that email addresses are quite the personality revealer. Our "human names" are given to us, and then we grow into them. But our "user names" are a summation of life experiences already had. They're more adjective, than noun.

Jennifer doesn’t fit your goal-oriented positive personality? Well, how about rocketgrrrl@yahoo, or sunnydelight@hotmail?

And without realizing it, our secret desires/identities come through. I swear, I don't think people intend for it to be that obvious either. I've seen grown women with addresses like, rainbowgirl@, sugarlips@, sillygirl@. And then they wonder why no one takes them seriously.

I think this is interesting enough to be worthy of a legit study.

[Corey Tamas]

I think the thing that kind of surprises me is that there are 02132001 other excite.com mail users who tried to get the name "mikeysMom".