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I love email. Since I work for most of the day, I am usually on my computer. If I need to contact someone I can send an email rather than having to take the time to find a phone number, dial it and then chit chat for 10 minutes. Instead, it takes about 45 seconds and I don’t have to get off my butt. In addition, like many writers, I prefer to write my thoughts rather than speak them. I like the additional time that writing gives me to think about what I want to say. It prevents me from saying something stupid which happens more often than I would like to admit. But now I am having a problem with my email. No, it isn’t all those big screen TVs I keep receiving (everyone’s getting a big screen TV for Christmas, as soon as I get around to claiming them all). My problem is that the email is winning. I get approximately 400 emails a day. While many of them can easily be deleted or read and filed, there are still quite a few that require some type of response. I really like to receive some of them. Every time one of you lovely readers leave me a comment, I get an email. Those are my favorite emails to receive. I want to save them so I can have a chance to respond to your comment or go by your blog to leave you a comment, or just because you made me feel good. But if I don’t stay on top of them, they add up. Oh, look at that, I just won an iPod Nano. Yay me! The electronics prizes just keep coming. Maybe someone can explain to me why spammers can’t be bothered to proofread their emails. I might be more likely to follow a link if it was grammatically correct and the information at the end matched the information in the beginning. If you want my social security number, you have to do more than cut and paste. I currently have 450 emails in my inbox. Since I have been writing for a while, some of those can be deleted, but more need some type of attention. I better go. While I was writing this, I received 92 emails and counting.
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Posted on 11:34, October 19th, 2009 by 
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I get about 300 emails a day. I delete them if they are a week old and I haven’t bothered to look at them. They aren’t spam necessarily but they are junk. I haven’t won a TV yet but I am constantly being left in the will of some poor dead fool who has no else to leave his money to, usually in British Sterling though the email is usually from somewhere else. I’m truly blessed that so many rich old people would think of me on their death bed.
Okay, your e-mail problem is worse than mine. I feel better now. Sort of.
I can totally relate. I’ve actually found myself using the phone more lately, because there are some issues that I can revolve after a 5 minute conversation that would probably involve 10 emails back and forth.
I haven’t received any emails for free electronics. Sounds like everyone is getting cooler spam than me, I always get the free viagra emails.
Ha! In my quest to earn a little extra spending money, I had signed up for different survey companies and mystery shopping companies that ALL send me email. That added to the fact that I have four different email addresses, I don’t even know what is coming or going anymore. And I am HORRIBLE about deleting or moving things as soon as I open them. I know your pain girl!
I feel your pain…I have the same issue – the ‘important’ email tends to get buried under the unimportant stuff. I finally created filters for incoming email so the blog comments go to their very own folder. Now to find the time to respond while I sift through all the other mass emails.
That is certainly a lot of email. Fortunately for me (or maybe not), most of the email that I am getting, I can delete them straight away because they are all spams. I agree with you on the spam email; if they are grammatically correct, it would have made them slightly more credible. But most of them just did bother to even spell check; which was a good thing because they knew that their email will end up in the trash anyway.
I’m getting the same. Except I keep getting emails to enlarge my penis instead of being offered big screens and Ipods. You’re obviously leaving your address in classier places than me. This will be Email #93 and counting…
I love my email enough that I can just ignore the junk. I take a few minutes and just click down all the boxes and do a mass delete. I find it much easier to send an email than pick up the phone and call someone. No awkward silences and I can decide what I’m saying as I go at my own pace.
You took the words right out of my mouth. If I was getting paid, it would definitely be a full time job.
I actually got a spam email the other day from the SPAM SCAM notification center.
I just laughed and laughed and laughed as I counted my Irish,British and Nigerian lottery winnings so I could buy my online degrees and pharmaceuticals.
92 emails just while blogging? omg! come to think of it, i’ve never counted emails i got. i delete most of them right away. my rule is it should all fit in one screen. if i have to scroll down then it’s too much mail. the i delete..delete..delete…and sometimes i delete mail that i would need in the future especially work related.then it’s just too bad.
My husband has 2,500 unread emails in his inbox. Which explains why people are constantly emailing me to get a hold of him.
Arrggghh!