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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a high school age kid and you are using Harvard alum email address that’s extremely strange because email had barely begun when you were in college.  Those alum accounts are for the 35 and under crowd. [/quote]

Only if your college was slow in email adoption . . .

Regardless, parents of HS age kids, at least in the professional world so kids not at age 22, likely started using email when accounts were either AOL or your local ISP.  When offered an alumni/ae address that was better because it was transferable.

And really who wants to switch email addresses constantly, let alone locking yourself into a gmail address and the google ecosystem at this point.[/quote]

My first email address was at my first job.  We didn't have them at my undergrad.  I left that job after a few years for grad school and the job didn't let me keep the email.  Never had aol. Next email address was at grad school (6yr program) and they allowed us to keep them when we graduated.  It was the real xxx@school.edu address (not some xxx@alumni.school.edu version) and everyone I know from our program still uses those original emails. We all got them at a time when internet accounts were opening and all of our logins to various services use that email address. It's not an IVY and none of us is doing it to flex but for convenience.

I'm curious how many people I know are offended by doing this. It makes me laugh at those who are, as I am not at all about brand name, or prestige, or flexing.  I think only one person has ever asked me about that.  [/quote]

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