Our email address says a lot about us. Mailing from Riseup? Activist. Posteo? Privacy-conscious. T-Online or AOL? Probably still using dial-up. So would you date someone using a hotmail address? (I confess that I have a roughly 12-year-old web.de email address that I still use. But let’s he honest: The real question is, would you actually ask someone out via email?)

Guest curated by Jessica Binsch. From Weekly Filet #212, in June 2015.

Would You Date Someone With A Hotmail Address?

Would You Date Someone With A Hotmail Address?

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