EMAIL!

Back in the “old days” of computers email applications became available and I was very excited about the prospect of much more immediate communications. This was for work application. I never really thought that people would start using it for personal communications as well.

I met my wife when I was sixteen years old and we wrote hundreds of letters back and forth. We still have them in boxes, a record and testament of our growing relationship. I use to write about everyday to her. These letters are hand written and decorated as best as we could do.

Today email has become the de facto method of communications. They are temporal and ephemeral by their very nature. Personally I keep all my email except the “junk” folder. But, junk seems like all I get. The amount of “newsletters,” offers, ads etc. far out strip emails from people I want to hear from. I find I miss important emails due to the amount of stuff coming into my inbox.  Looking at my email today I have 1400 unread emails in my inbox! How did this happen?

Well, you register a piece of software or hardware even your new toaster and it is followed by emailed offers, newsletters and other marketing material. When is someone going to tell all these companies that this amount of communicates is more confusing than the last Transformer movie. I delete “blocks” of emails now. I know in doing this I delete stuff I really want to or need to read. It’s all very frustrating. I know people, you might be one of them, that just creates a new email address on a routine basis to stop this flow of junk.

Again, when you do this, important emails will not get to you and you’ll miss the free upgrade offer of a major piece of software you use. I use scads of smart email boxes to sort things but it’s getting to be too much. I’m on an unsubscribe binge and updating my junk folder settings like crazy. What a mess. Somehow I mean to beat this back because I do want to keep my email address.

So, if I miss your emails please be patient. I’m going to get this under control one way or the other and companies out there STOP IT.