Comments on: Why Gmail is Mature http://www.trickjarrett.com/2008/05/27/why-gmail-is-mature/ Live Brave Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Stephen Granade http://www.trickjarrett.com/2008/05/27/why-gmail-is-mature/#comment-1220 Stephen Granade Tue, 27 May 2008 17:44:07 +0000 http://www.trickjarrett.com/?p=374#comment-1220 I'm also not convinced Gmail's going away any time soon. Google is working hard to aggregate as much stuff as possible, and I don't expect them to let go of all of that. I’m also not convinced Gmail’s going away any time soon. Google is working hard to aggregate as much stuff as possible, and I don’t expect them to let go of all of that.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.trickjarrett.com/2008/05/27/why-gmail-is-mature/#comment-1219 Jeff Tue, 27 May 2008 17:02:22 +0000 http://www.trickjarrett.com/?p=374#comment-1219 Actually, I think the explanation is simpler. My GMail address is the "mature" one because that's the address that GMail suggested when I signed up, and I had no reason to change it. I don't think people picked addresses like "masterblaster1968" because they wanted to. I think it's because the name-related address they really wanted (plus all the variations they could think of) was already taken on Hotmail/Yahoo/etc. I had to choose a "weird" username for my Hotmail account when I signed up years ago simply because the obvious permutations of my real name were ALL already taken. Actually, I think the explanation is simpler. My GMail address is the “mature” one because that’s the address that GMail suggested when I signed up, and I had no reason to change it. I don’t think people picked addresses like “masterblaster1968″ because they wanted to. I think it’s because the name-related address they really wanted (plus all the variations they could think of) was already taken on Hotmail/Yahoo/etc.

I had to choose a “weird” username for my Hotmail account when I signed up years ago simply because the obvious permutations of my real name were ALL already taken.

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