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I love email. Being somewhat socially challenged, email offers me the opportunity to communicate while thinking carefully about what I am going to say before I say it. In fact, I should do that more often. There is no excuse for me to make no sense because I am just not paying attention to what I am writing. Of course, while email can help us to keep in touch with people, sometimes it adds a certain level of stress. Right now I have 183 emails in my inbox. All waiting for me to respond. I have read every one but some require a fair amount of effort to handle so they take a while. Some of my emails are fun. A friend wants to get together with the kids. Some of my emails are lame. Some prince in Nigeria is giving me his life savings and it will be transferred to my bank account as soon as I send him my account number. Some are shopping related. Lands End is offering a discount on backpacks. If you think about it, email provides a microcosmic view of our lives. It doesn’t provide the whole picture but it certainly provides a glimpse into what is important to us, what we are doing and where we are going (and where we have been). So what are your thoughts on email? Do you love that it allows you to keep in touch with people or do you hate the fact that it can be socially isolating?
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I despise talking on the phone, hence I love email. Too bad email was not around 100 years ago when I was a teenager, my mother would have been much happier LOL! I do get spam and annoying ones, but for the most part deleting them is just a click away. I love the guy from Nigeria who thinks I am actually dumb enough to fall for his scam.
I too would rather type to people than to actually talk to them – but I tend to use texts more than email, even for business, that way it’s kept short sweet and to the point.
since I’m a rather socially isolated type of person, I like email. The only problem I have with my in box is that I let things pile up. I read through everything, then instead of either addressing, or forwarding something on I wait till later to get back to it. Sometimes I wait too long
Definitely mixed feelings on email. It’s become so overwhelming lately, it drives me batty! However I do love the convenience & simplicity of email. I am a crackberry user, so email and texts are my main communications vehicles.
I hate all of the junk mail I get. I love communicating via email, though. I can say what I need to and don’t have to listen to a bunch of babbling before I can get off of the phone.
I think email is considerate. Unlike a phone call, which I suppose you could ignore even tho the ringing has already intruded, email can be attended to when a person has the time and inclination to do so. With email you are never catching someone at a bad time, a know? The downside to email is that having sent one that merits or needs a reply, you don’t get one. So you send another saying “Did you get my email?” and poof, you become annoying and intrusive.
Nothing is perfect…:)
I Love email, it seems it is the best way to keep in touch these days, it is hard to get me by phone, but maybe easier by email
i love email however i have one or two people in my life that have apparently put a time limit on how long it takes a “friend” to respond to emails. Doesn’t matter how busy said friend might be or that maybe the subject matter of the email really isn’t important. If I don’t respond in the proper time frame I get hormone mail… you know mail that says “I thought we were friends, i am good to you why can’t you be good to me blah blah blah…” It really isn’t that I am a rude person it’s just sometimes when it’s monday morning at work and I have a million things to do, i just honestly have absolutely no desire to discuss what happened over the weekend with people that I don’t see outside of work… You know? Anyone else have an email bitch? an email stalker? that one person that you cringe when you see their name pop up on your email?
Please of please tell me I am not alone!
Love, love, love it. It can keep me connected with people when I don’t have but a few moments to spare and knowing a phone call will involve a lot more time. It also makes it easy to let people know you are thinking of them and haven’t forgotten them!
I love love love love email. But I hate hate hate when I don’t check it for a few days and I get overloaded!
Well, being a goat I don’t:
need three more inches. I am tall enough for my breed, thank you.
Need to purchase a college degree. I am goat for heaven’s sake. I would just eat the diploma.
Need drugs. I want apples. Now I don’t care if they are Canadian apples or not as long as they are apples.
Need to be anyone’s Dear One except for the publicist.
Willy can’t type any better than he can talk.
What should Willy do?
10-4 Willy
well a lot of emails from nigeria will make you a rich guy. lolz. mine put them in a spam folder so that it will not loose.
Emails work for me…espcially when I’m dealing with companies that never answer their phone!
Like others, I don’t do well on the telephone. I’m not one for small talk, and if I’m excited about something I get tongue tied. When I can compose an e-mail I can organize my thoughts and say what I meant to say the first time. I guess that’s also why I like blogging.
Love it. I can leave it sit there for days and it doesn’t bother me like that damn phone ringing. Phones are just so….so…immediate. Sigh.
On the other hand, I love writing the perfect email–which is sometimes great and other times….not so great. As of late, some folks are mad at me because I write such lovely, detailed emails that they read over and over again. Seems they like to read more into my lovely verbage than they should.
Crap. I can’t win.
I have a love/hate relationship with mine. It tends to overwhelm me and add more to my to do list, but I also get some fun ones and invites that make my day.
Since I’m not a ‘phone person’, email is a welcome mode of communication with family and friends that live 3000 miles away – especially since the time difference always screws me up.
Although it’s a love/hate relationship with email, since I get so many I have to sift through them and (hopefully) not miss the really important ones! 
I prefer to communicate via email or texting. I babble too much when I’m talking and end up forgetting the subject.
I agree, I prefer email over other forms of communication. My husband hates it and seriously asked me to send birthday thank you’s to those who had e-mailed him on his birthday last month because he wasn’t comfortable! I refused for two weeks but then gave in. . .I can’t relate but I guess that’s why I’m the blogger in the family
By the way, thank you for your comment on Logan’s crib post. I haven’t decided when I’m going to do the transition yet because, I agree, when he’s in his crib I’m more confident that all is well!