Be careful when you want to share your Gmail email address but not your name.
If you signed up for Google's mail app with your real name, people knowing certain privacy holes in Google's applications will be able to find out your first and last name as you provided them.
E.g. if your email address is "ExampleElven2000@gmail.com" and you pass it on, someone could take this address, apply the trick, and end up with the full name "Jane Doe", even if you never contacted them in any way.
One multi-step approach to find out the name was posted to a security blog recently.
Also, some of us forwarded one way to go from email nick to full name in a different, quicker way to Google security over two months ago -- it's an approach where one can utilize the Google Apps program -- but nothing got fixed (there also wasn't a human response, ...
