I used to give out my e-mail address.
You know, before the everyone and my mom knew about IM. But that isn't the reason I don't give out my e-mail address anymore.
Or before the advent of Myspace/Facebook. But that still doesn't hit the root of why I don't give out my e-mail address anymore.
I don't give out my e-mail address anymore due to the fact that anybody who asks you for your e-mail address is not thinking, "Good! I can finally keep in touch with this person!" They are thinking, "Good! I have 500 chain letters that I need to send out so I won't die on Saturday, and stuff that I deem as funny that has been around longer than Usenet!"
E-mail: Please die, <3 everyone.
I was reminded how much I hate e-mail just today. Although it really started 2 months ago.
My mom and I went to church one night, and it was a good service. I was sitting next to Mom, and next to us was this one woman who I talked to before it started.
At the end of service she asks for my e-mail. Now, here's a bad position to be in. One, I can't lie and say I don't have an e-mail address; my mom is sitting right next to me, knows better, and would've called me on it, and I would've looked horrible in church. Two, I can't give a fake e-mail, or else she'll just bug me about her e-mails bouncing back every week at church. Yet three, I know what's coming as soon as she asked.
So I give it to her, and not three hours later I get an e-mail entitled: "FW: This is funny!"
......................WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Back before myspace, I became very very selective about who got my e-mail address. In '06, after one of my coworkers began sending me 500 chain letters a day, I refused to give it out unless absolutely necessary (meaning, if I'm not e-mailing you an attachment that for some reason, wouldn't send in IM, or I need to e-mail you a referral code for something, you don't get my e-mail). And it's things like this that make me wish that we would revert back to the pony express type crap.
You know, before the everyone and my mom knew about IM. But that isn't the reason I don't give out my e-mail address anymore.
Or before the advent of Myspace/Facebook. But that still doesn't hit the root of why I don't give out my e-mail address anymore.
I don't give out my e-mail address anymore due to the fact that anybody who asks you for your e-mail address is not thinking, "Good! I can finally keep in touch with this person!" They are thinking, "Good! I have 500 chain letters that I need to send out so I won't die on Saturday, and stuff that I deem as funny that has been around longer than Usenet!"
E-mail: Please die, <3 everyone.
I was reminded how much I hate e-mail just today. Although it really started 2 months ago.
My mom and I went to church one night, and it was a good service. I was sitting next to Mom, and next to us was this one woman who I talked to before it started.
At the end of service she asks for my e-mail. Now, here's a bad position to be in. One, I can't lie and say I don't have an e-mail address; my mom is sitting right next to me, knows better, and would've called me on it, and I would've looked horrible in church. Two, I can't give a fake e-mail, or else she'll just bug me about her e-mails bouncing back every week at church. Yet three, I know what's coming as soon as she asked.
So I give it to her, and not three hours later I get an e-mail entitled: "FW: This is funny!"
......................WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Back before myspace, I became very very selective about who got my e-mail address. In '06, after one of my coworkers began sending me 500 chain letters a day, I refused to give it out unless absolutely necessary (meaning, if I'm not e-mailing you an attachment that for some reason, wouldn't send in IM, or I need to e-mail you a referral code for something, you don't get my e-mail). And it's things like this that make me wish that we would revert back to the pony express type crap.
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