E-Mail Screen Names Reveal Personality Clues

(PRWEB) April 6, 2004--"E-mailer screen names often give message recipients an immediate sense of a mailer's personality or motivation." That from Felicia Reymont whose rhymeshop.com website has heard from hundreds of inquiring clients.

Nevertheless, working within length restrictions imposed by Internet Service Providers, the results are often clever, fun to read and invite the receiver to open and read the message. Names like "superhero," "copyhawk," "sunpixie," "sharkbait," "sultrymusic" and "fraidycats." Still, she adds, "creativity seems to favor feminine e-mailers."

Where there is a 16-character limit on screen names, Reymont points to the use of number substitutes to stay within the rules: 2 and 4, as well as acronyms, contractions and lifts from movie titles or song lyrics. Still a high percentage of e-mailers use real names and initials.

When the length rules are more liberal one can find entries like "stealthestarsfrommyeyes," "morethanjustawedding," and "princeofallmydomain."

"Unfortunately," she warns, "all you need is an e-mail address to be flooded with all-too-frequent spammer gibberish using unreadable letter combinations like xbxjafxgp, a signal that says reader/buyer beware."

Note to Editors:

The following screen names are a sampling from the rhymeshop.com website inquiry file and further illustrate the premise of this article: imonmyway, perdidabuscando, wildjelly, tinkerbelle,

mytmouse, ironman, happi4evr, datingtips, qtee and 2inlove.