What your email address says about you...

Mac.com. In a world of almost infinite domain-names, plumping for Mac.com seems a bizarre choice: as if the owner is answering a question no one had asked them. Ever. Each e-mail sent screams “YES — I HAVE A MAC. I HAVE NO RIGHT CLICK BUTTON. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?” It is peace time, mac.com people. You no longer have to give your name, rank and number every time you send an e-mail. And the information you seem so desperate to convey is arbitrary, at best. You might as well be sending e-mails from myfrontdoorisredactually.com. My sister, who works in IT, comments: “The general observation among ‘my community’ is that these people are invariably bumptious media buffoons, who should be aware that anyone receiving their e-mail on a PC will instantly hate them and put their e-mail request right at the back of the queue. Even if it’s for emergency first-aid techniques.Yeah.”


Gmail. Of course, Hotmail and Yahoo’s big problem is Gmail, which is also free, but — unlike Yahoo and Hotmail — is where all the cool kids are at right now. Slick, fast, full of useful apps and essentially like a cross between Topshop and the Millennium Falcon, Gmail has users who consequently radiate an air of having sent their e-mail while midway through a skateboarding trick, on their way to a secret gig by La Roux — despite being, in reality, freelance arts graduates caning off the free wifi in Starbucks.

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