Want an even weirder email address? Gmail lets you combine trick 1 and trick 2 with no etc, etc… The only thing you have to do is add a plus symbol (+) after your normal username and then add the word you want. Gmail doesn’t just turn a blind eye to dots but also lets you add words to your normal email address. Trick 2: Add extra words to your username So, if your email is, you can add one or more dots and Google will continue to identify it as the same look different, right? Nope, Gmail recognizes all these addresses as the same and all mail sent to these addresses will arrive in the same inbox. Gmail doesn’t count dots (.) as characters in usernames. How many ways can you get “new” email addresses that are actually the same one? We’ll tell you below! Trick 1: add dots to your username Did you know that you can write the same Gmail address in different ways? This trick, which very few people know about, helps you have several accounts for online services (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter…) without having to create a new email account every time, and without all that hassle.
