If you use Gmail or Google Mail, then you are fully aware of the fact that it provides 15 GB of free storage shared between other services like Google Drive. You also get a @gmail.com email address. You can use it to send and receive messages and also to sign up for services like Twitter and Facebook. You can sign up for more email addresses for free and have separate ones for your work and personal purposes. But what if you just wanted an email to sign up for two Twitter accounts? We have a simple trick to create virtually unlimited Gmail Addresses.
There’s a simple solution for that. With Gmail, you get to use the plus (+) sign after your email address, enter in some text and make it appear as if it is a new email address. You can create unlimited gmail addresses this way. If that was not clear enough, then here is an example:
Suppose, your email is [email protected]. You can use [email protected] and it will still deliver emails to your original email address. There are unlimited possibilities to it.
The benefits of this are:
When you need to sign up for services like Twitter more than once, you might require two emails. Using this simple trick you signup as [email protected]. For generating additional emails, you can use [email protected] or even something like [email protected]. You can do it as many times as you can, hence giving you unlimited email ids to use. Be creative with it.
Another use of this is to track who is selling your email to spammers. You can sign up to a certain site let’s say ustream.tv by entering an email like [email protected]. That way if you receive ton of spam emails to [email protected], then you can track down the source of your email leak.
One More Thing
Another cool thing about Gmail is that the dot (.) used in between the email id does not matter. You email can be [email protected], [email protected] or even [email protected]. It doesn’t matter where you put the dot (.). It is commonly used to separate words like [email protected].
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