3 Myths About Email That Need to Die Cold and Alone

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
by Ms. Wahala

Everyone uses email the same way.

Not True.

I’m not necessarily sitting at my computer with my eyeballs touching the screen waiting for email to come. I don’t have the audio reminder turned on so that I know every time an email comes through.

I check email once a day, if that, in an attempt to be more productive.

So if I don’t get back to you in eight seconds, it’s probably because I didn’t see your email yet.

But I’ll answer you. I promise.
If someone doesn’t respond to your email, they hate you.
Could be they didn’t get it. Could be they tried to answer by phone.

Maybe it’s in their junk folder and they haven’t found it yet, or never will. It’s actually quite common.
Email is the best way to reach anyone.
Sorry. If you email me, you’re guaranteeing that you won’t hear from me immediately.

I have folks who sort for me, and I check the sorted, filtered, folder version of the mail daily. If you were a client of mine, you’d know to call or how else to reach me. It’s nothing personal. I just don’t operate that way.

What email myths do you wish would go away?

[tags]email, sending email, getting email[/tags]

3 Comments

George Kirby

September 29th, 2007
at 11:06am

The only advantage of email over the phone is the ability to send attachments. And since 99% of the attachments sent worldwide are either spam, malware or idiotic “duh, ya gotta see this” crap, what’s the point?
I check my email about once a month, unless somebody calls and says, “Check your email. I sent you such-and-such.”

Email is a bad joke anyway. Just set up a dummy secondary account with a username like a6jkw71p and DON’T USE IT–just monitor it. You’ll find out very quickly that emplyees at *most* ISP’s are selling their customers out to the spammers (probably one of the my-last-job-was-Burger-King “techs”).

Howard Young

September 30th, 2007
at 10:28pm

My mother actually uses my email account. She has things sent to my account and then I print them out and mail them to her via the old US Postal Service. She simply doesn’t want a computer or to be bothered with it.

So if you send something to her, expect a long delay and perhaps something with a 41 cent stamp on it.

Ms. Wahala

October 4th, 2007
at 3:04pm

George,

Honestly I wonder sometimes if people get email confused with IM.

Howard,

Your mother’s a woman after my heart. :)

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