Introducing nomail
I got my first email address more than 20 years ago, made by my parents so I could receive all the finest "memes" and email chains from family and friends, and to create accounts on games and forums. It's nothing special for kids nowadays, but back then I was one of the very few in my school with internet access at home.
Email addresses are a crucial part of our online life: we use them everywhere, on every account we create on every platform, and to communicate with other people or subscribe to newsletters. Having one single address is convenient, since whether it's friends, family or your tax agency, everyone can reach you at the same place. Handy, right?
One address to rule them all
I haven't used that first address as my primary email for over a decade, but it still exists and will probably outlive me. Because I wasn't so careful as a kid, it quickly started to receive spam, so I was more cautious with my next @live.fr address, sharing it less and keeping the old one for anything I considered junk. I still do this today: a primary email, and a bunch of junk ones.