Another public service announcement:
Unless you want your kid to end up with some hideous email account name like LPT23.49.11112@Gmail.com in 10 years or so. You ought to go make them one now.
That may all sound ridiculous, but there's something like 4.3 BILLION email accounts out there. The options are dwindling every day.
And if you create it, the chances of your kid being that weirdo with BigDickMcGee69696902@email.com decreases...
Personally, I got lucky, and snagged my full name @gmail.com many years ago. Which looks pretty professional, and it's not embarrassing to tell people. Over the phone I don't even have to spell it out since they have my name info on their computer anyways. I highly recommend it if you can get it. If you got a common name, good luck. All the more reason to try now while there are still some variations out there.
I tried to do the same for my kids today. Succeeded with my daughters name, but not my son. His I had to add month/day of his birthday on the end to make it work.
And if you do Gmail, you can link your kids account to yours so you can spy on them. That's a pleasant plus.
Here's the quick link for GMAIL on creating your kids accounts.
Create a Google Account for your child - Google For Families Help
As an aside, I'm not a Google fan... I prefer DuckDuckGo for a search engine, and I've tinkered a little with Proton Mail which is much more private and less... Big Brotherish. But I haven't fully committed to it yet.
Unless you want your kid to end up with some hideous email account name like LPT23.49.11112@Gmail.com in 10 years or so. You ought to go make them one now.
That may all sound ridiculous, but there's something like 4.3 BILLION email accounts out there. The options are dwindling every day.
And if you create it, the chances of your kid being that weirdo with BigDickMcGee69696902@email.com decreases...
Personally, I got lucky, and snagged my full name @gmail.com many years ago. Which looks pretty professional, and it's not embarrassing to tell people. Over the phone I don't even have to spell it out since they have my name info on their computer anyways. I highly recommend it if you can get it. If you got a common name, good luck. All the more reason to try now while there are still some variations out there.
I tried to do the same for my kids today. Succeeded with my daughters name, but not my son. His I had to add month/day of his birthday on the end to make it work.
And if you do Gmail, you can link your kids account to yours so you can spy on them. That's a pleasant plus.
Here's the quick link for GMAIL on creating your kids accounts.
Create a Google Account for your child - Google For Families Help
As an aside, I'm not a Google fan... I prefer DuckDuckGo for a search engine, and I've tinkered a little with Proton Mail which is much more private and less... Big Brotherish. But I haven't fully committed to it yet.
