Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by simplicio on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:17PM (#24202171)

I ended up doing this, more or less for the same reason. I've found it kind of useful though, as I'm terrible at remembering names and faces, so if someone calls out to me the name they use gives me a clue where I know them from.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by laurent92 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:48PM (#24203460)

It’s a bit like in gmail, where you can add a + and it allows you to spot spam mail. So, if someone calls you John+firstjob, you know where they’ve known you.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by jabirali on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:44PM (#24205227)

I'm curious, does this still work? Since GMail is likely the largest email provider in the world, I would have expected spammers to simply filter out the `+.*` by now.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by culturestate on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:13PM (#24206182)

What advantage would spammers get from trying to hide the provenance of a bought/rented/stolen list? If it was a really profitable scam like crypto phishing, having the modifiers might even be an advantage because they could target the templates more effectively.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by jabirali on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:42AM (#24210862)

Well, if the ones who sell email addresses to spammers filter out the `+`, there’s a larger chance they can continue to do so without getting caught or exposed?

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