What Your Personal Email Address Says About You

I recently was introduced to an entrepreneur with a personal email address on Hotmail. After doing a double take, I could faintly hear Sesame Street’s One of These Things Doesn’t Belong playing in my head. So on a whim, I decided to make sweeping and stereotypical judgments about what your email address might say about you.

Gmail

I am in the technology industry
I am a technology enthusiast
I am under the age of 25
I live in the Bay area
I have a close friend or family member in the technology industry

Yahoo

I am a casual user of technology
I am an aging technologist who once had relevant skills
I was an early adopter of webmail who is too busy (lazy) to migrate
I was once in the technology industry
I was recently thawed after having been cryogenically frozen in 2001

Hotmail

I work for Microsoft
I used to work for Microsoft
I am an overseas spammer
I am an overseas spammer who used to work for Microsoft
Help, I’m trapped in Windows 98 and can’t get out!

AOL

My love-hate relationship with technology is mostly hate
I am retired
My dialup modem doesn’t support The Internet
There is a 3.5 inch disk drive on my PC
I was recently thawed after having been cryogenically frozen in 1995

Vanity Domain

I am a technologist
I am social media savvy
I am a self-promoter
I am between the ages of 35 and 45 (dotcom boom)
I have a technology blog

Comcast or Verizon

I have no personal interest in technology
I have neither a close friend nor family member with an interest in technology
I have a close friend or family member with an interest in technology, but they will no longer visit my house to look at my PC
I check my email once a day
I play FarmVille on Facebook

iCloud (.mac or .me)

I actively use at least three iToys in my daily life (e.g. MacBook, iPad, iPhone)
I have an intuitive sense of good design
I have at least once in my life accused Microsoft of being the anti-Christ
I feel a tinge of pain on admitting Apple failed with MobileMe
I know something the rest of you don't: Google is so last decade

I neither practice nor do I condone email profiling. Any resemblance to actual people or personalities is purely coincidental.