{"id":22589,"date":"2026-04-02T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/goodbye-mrbrightside416-google-allows-users-to-alter-quirky-gmail-addresses\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:37:22","slug":"goodbye-mrbrightside416-google-allows-users-to-alter-quirky-gmail-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/goodbye-mrbrightside416-google-allows-users-to-alter-quirky-gmail-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye mrbrightside416: Google allows users to alter quirky Gmail addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in US given chance to have more professional usernames without losing access to account<\/p>\n<p>Did your McLovin!1976!@gmail.com email address seem funny at the time but less so now you are applying for dozens of jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Google has said it is giving US users a chance to appear more professional by letting them change their Google account username \u2013 whatever appears before @gmail.com in an email address \u2013 without losing access to their account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/02\/google-allows-users-alter-quirky-gmail-addresses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c885f9e4dd4f517604064a0fd91f7595efa3df8a\/392_0_3557_2848\/master\/3557.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=947c16bdd689537dfe3ed47a2ba6f5b6\" title=\"Goodbye mrbrightside416: Google allows users to alter quirky Gmail addresses\" \/>Those in US given chance to have more professional usernames without losing access to account<br \/>\nDid your McLovin!1976!@gmail.com email address seem funny at the time but less so now you are applying for dozens of jobs?<br \/>\nGoogle has said it is giving US users a chance to appear more professional by letting them change their Google account username \u2013 whatever appears before @gmail.com in an email address \u2013 without losing access to their account. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/goodbye-mrbrightside416-google-allows-users-to-alter-quirky-gmail-addresses\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye mrbrightside416: Google allows users to alter quirky Gmail addresses<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}