Do you get as many emails as you used to?

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Seems like the numbers are down. I can't tell if it's because I'm unresponsive, or if people have moved into other forms of communication.

I still get tons of work-related stuff, but I used to get alot more random "Hey we should hang out!" types of things. The peak was probably like 1999 or 2000, when it was still slightly novel.

I do get social emails, but not as many: do I need to start IM'ing or TXT'ing to get back in the game? Oh, and please don't try to send me any because the good folks at "grasshopper.org" have.. er, limited bandwidth.

― andy --, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Emails were replaced by IMs and IMs were replaced by texts and texts were replaced by NOTHING cos I'm too poor to go out anymore

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I think everyone stopped contacting me cos I never go anywhere now, as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah that's the reason why i stopped emailing you, trayce. you've NEVER gone out anywhere with me!

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Aw, its not as if I don't TRY, dude ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

The amount of emails I get has dropped, but the amount of should rubbing I do with complete strangers IRL and on the net has increased tremendously. I don't know what that means.

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

shoulder rubbing i mean.

I should learn to proof read.

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Everyone just uses cell phones now to annoy the fuck out of me.

― Rocker For Light (on a Bad Brains kick) (Eleventy-Twelve), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I feel like I am on the verge of hitting someone with a cell phone.

― Rocker For Light (on a Bad Brains kick) (Eleventy-Twelve), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I think everyone stopped contacting me cos I never go anywhere now, as well.

Hey did you turn into a hermit too?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Once in a while I go on a wild spree and start e-mailing people hoping it will get some good responses. It doesn't seem to work, really.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

I personally do, but I never received that many in the first place.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Loads of people don't reply to emails anymore. I'm related to a particularly annoying person who insists on receiving emails but never replies to them. Ever. We don't even know if our emails are read.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

"turn into" a hermit?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

It's dropped for me but that's because other means of communication are out there, online and off. But I still love sending and receiving mails (and more people should write me, darnit!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Also haha yeah, I always tell my mum "mum if you cant get to me on the phone email me ffs, I always read my emails".

So she does, and I dont reply to it for like 5 days.

95% of my home email now is just livejournal comment notifications.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

My mother writes emails ON PAPER and gets my dad to type them up. She's not even 60 ffs.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Ahaha! Thats great =)

My mum always writes "mum" in the subject of her emails, as if somehow I wouldnt know who it was from otherwise.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh and on this topic.... I saw the most hilarious thing on one of the Breakfast tv shows this morning. This tech guy was talking about a new govt DVD on how to use the internet thats mainly aimed at older people and pooter-illiterate types. Its free, you can just apply for one...

...by going to their website.

WTF.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

you should reply with "DAUGHTER"
xpost

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

My mother writes in heiroglyphs.

― Rocker For Light (on a Bad Brains kick) (Eleventy-Twelve), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Freebird!

― Rocker For Light (on a Bad Brains kick) (Eleventy-Twelve), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't get as many emails, but I get a whole lot more Evites. And those are better.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

It varies for me. The ones that count most are from my old friends, and our emailing tends to go in phases, where there might be none for a couple of days then a hundred or more in the next few days. I hardly ever get any from anyone on ILX, unless I initiate it*, and even then I don't always get a reply.

* I'm desperately insecure enough not to do this often, as me writing someone else an email = me bothering them, whereas them writing me an email = them doing me a favour.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

MY MOM ALWAYS WRITES IN CAPITAL LETTERS AS IF THE INTERWEB IS A TELEGRAM SERVICE.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I feel so guilty. I have about six different people to email, two CDs to make and a card to send. I'm a bad procrastinator anyway, but have been particularly bad of late.

I tend to get the most emails after I've bashed out a standard I've Changed My Address type of thing - it seems to remind people we need to catch up, and then it takes ages for me to reply and the whole cycle starts over again. I used to write several long emails a day. Maybe it's because the novelty has worn off.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS HOW NAZI GERMANY STARTED BY THINKING TELEGRAMS WERE COMPUTERS

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes it's definitely dropped off for me too, substantially.

Receiving 10 or so spam messages and maybe a couple of amazon confirmation emails a day has become the norm. Not many of my friends use email outside of work anyway.

I just got a new mobile phone tho so that looks to be the new messaging service for me from now on.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Even just receiving an email causes guilt, because I know I won't be responding for sometime. Guilt causes drinking, drinking causes lethargy and procrastination, and so on - it's vicious.

― andy --, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

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