What your email address says about you
Along with your pin number, an email address is the collection of numbers and letters you’ll type more than anything else in your life. If you’ve ever used the Internet, chances are you’ll have one, and unlike your card details, it’s something you choose yourself.
Indeed, perhaps you didn’t realise when you first typed out your email address that what you pick as a prefix could provide a fascinating psychological insight into your personality. We spoke to Graham Jones, an award-winning Internet psychologist, to find out what different kinds of email addresses say about their owners.
First name first – i.e. ‘john.smith@yahoo.co.uk’
This suggests a business-like approach – someone who wants a portable email to take anywhere. These people realise that they can have a permanent email address no matter where they work or what they do.
