Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur?

Nerval's Lobster writes: Despite years of layoffs and tumbling net worth, AOL seemed to get a new lease on life this week when Verizon bought it for $4.4 billion. But even if AOL's still alive, using an AOL email address has long been seen as a way of signaling that you're stuck in the 1990s. A recent analysis of Dice data found that a mere 1.8 percent of those registering for the site used an AOL address, versus 55 percent for Gmail. For the past several years, Websites from Gizmodo to Lifehacker have all declared that still using an AOL email address is counterproductive, to put it mildly. But is that actually true? Do the people in your life and work actually care whether you use AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, or a custom address, or is the idea of 'email bias' an overblown myth?

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Not at all

[aaaaaaargh!]

what used to be AOL == Gmail now

meaning, only morons and noobs use it

I know this is controversial, so let's start the flamewar and downmodding in 3, 2, 1...

I do have email bias

[Sir_Eptishous]

Ever since around 2009-10 my bias has been against those with Gmail accounts.
Like FB, it is another path of least resistance that the tech behemoths have herded Americans into.