I hate email. Something about it is such a hassle. People can send stuff to me, and I'm expected to check it periodically, so I will presumably see whatever it is they sent to me within a reasonably short time of them sending it to me. People come to expect this.

Right now I have 60 unread messages in my inbox. They consist of assorted periodic updates from policial mailing lists I signed up for back during the presidential campaign, jokes forwarded by my grandpa, postings to a couple different english class listservs, notifications of bills that I pay before being notified, missing password reminders from websites I then remembered the password to, and any maner of other stuff. None of this is really spam, but none of this is really anything I feel like reading. But I don't delete the messages, because I feel like I'm supposed to read them at some point if not right now.

The worst part of email though, is the people expecting me to see whatever it is they sent me and then expecting a reply. Stuff like random relatives sending me random emails talking about some stuff that they want to hear back from me about but I really don't care about at all. With a voicemail I could at least have the excuse of having listened to it, made an attempt to call back and not gotten a hold of them, and then forgetting to call back again. But nooo, with email their message is sitting right there in my inbox and it's not going anywhere. I also can't admit to them that I deleted their email because then it's like their emails aren't important enough to me to be spared from the recycle bin.

Thus, I have 60 unread emails in my inbox, and they're only going to continue to pile up. At some as-yet undetermined point in the not-necessarily-distant future I will decide to clean up the inbox and delete all of these messages that I was supposed to have read and replied to long ago, having done neither of these things, and being generally despised by the people that sent me the things I didn't read for having not read them.

Sigh.

 

this is why I have new e-mail instant notification

 

And just think, in the time it took you to rant on this problem, you could have read and replied to 10% of those messages.

 

Yes.

I felt the same way when my man cave-UUGH invented fire...itwas like,,now I have to rub sticks together and collect kindling just to keep my family warm and make meat safe to eat??!?!??!
WTF???!

And don't get me started on the the telephone...great I can communicate across ocean's instrantly and it's unifying mankind and stuff,,,but GOD having to like push buttons,,,what a bitch!


Any great convienent revolutionary invention that gets popular b/c of it's obvious potential and great value to society and then requires me to preform simple tasks to communicate with my loved ones and coworkers like totally sucks man!!!!

I'm going to kill myself now. goodbye (join????)

 

7/10 :chuckles: I kinda liked it

 

you have too much time to bitch about stuff like this

 

about 90% of my email is from either bbwxmag or mpp.org h:

 

I hate yahoo right now as it's not letting me access my friggin mail and I have some important stuff to look at h: