Those in US given chance to have more professional usernames without losing access to account
Did your McLovin!1976!@gmail.com email address seem funny at the time but less so now you are applying for dozens of jobs?
Google has said it is giving US users a chance to appear more professional by letting them change their Google account username – whatever appears before @gmail.com in an email address – without losing access to their account.
However, the tech company will limit the name changes to one per 12 months. In an example shared online by Google, the email address sk8tergrl123.1986@gmail.com is changed to the more sombre elisa.beckett@gmail.com.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said the company would allow address changes without cutting them off from their inboxes.
