What is the difference between username and email address?

Answer 1

The user name is what the person chooses when he or she first creates a new e mail account. This is most typically their first name and surname (e.g.Gordon Brown or they may choose their initial(s) and surname (e.g. G.Brown_ or else make it a nickname or some title they like that represents them or their business, e.g. One Eyed Scot. It is entirely up to them what they choose as user name.

The e mail address can be the same or different from the user name. It may start with the account holder's first name and surname or else initial and surname either with a dot between them e.g. gordon.brown or all as one word. e.g. gordonbrown. But in most cases the combination the person may have first wanted to choose to be his e mail address may have already been taken and registered by somebody else e.g. a different Gordon Brown living in England registered with the same internet Service Provider. So something may need to be changed or added, most typically one or more figures, so they perhaps make it gordonbrown83 instead of just gordonbrown

Alternatively they can choose a nickname or anything else they like to represent them spelled however they wish. e.g. oneeyedscot. After the e mail name chosen the @ sign is automatically followed by their Internet Service Provider's identity, which may or may not include the country code. e.g. gordonbrown83@yahoo.co.uk

Answer 2

An email address is the address at which one receives email and can be obtained for free from many service providers on the Internet, including hotmail, gmail, and Yahoo.

A user name is a name which a user of a website uses to identify oneself, both for log-in and for social purposes.

Many people often use the section of the email address prior to the at sign (@) as their user names in order to better remember them, but they can be entirely unique and distinct from ones email address.

Answer 3

Username means the name you typed in when it asked for your desired Username.

Email id would mean the e-mail that you used to create the account.

Answer 4

user ID can be a way to sign into something like your email but usually its best to use your email. but basically they are the same.