I have a few like this. Another trick: websites like Facebook will take your email address and cross-reference it with their database. Even if you don’t give Facebook access to your address book, if someone else in the planet did, and your email is there, you will be subject to cross-referenced “do you know this guy” requests from people you may rather never hear from again.
My solution: create a unique email alias that no one in the planet has, and use that one for Facebook. Alias with naming convention may easily be deciphered by such attempts at cross-referencing you against the world.
My long-time favorite version of this solution is to use spamgourmet.com. I use it just about every time I need to give an email address. After twenty emails to that address it stops forwarding them. I can set an exclusive sender to that address if I don’t want the forwarding to stop.
I do a similar trick with iCloud aliases.
If you use Outlook, they allow you to create all new email aliases with any naming convention you want. one can be yourname@outlook.com, the next randomdudespambox@outlook.com.
I have a few like this. Another trick: websites like Facebook will take your email address and cross-reference it with their database. Even if you don’t give Facebook access to your address book, if someone else in the planet did, and your email is there, you will be subject to cross-referenced “do you know this guy” requests from people you may rather never hear from again.
My solution: create a unique email alias that no one in the planet has, and use that one for Facebook. Alias with naming convention may easily be deciphered by such attempts at cross-referencing you against the world.
My long-time favorite version of this solution is to use spamgourmet.com. I use it just about every time I need to give an email address. After twenty emails to that address it stops forwarding them. I can set an exclusive sender to that address if I don’t want the forwarding to stop.