Confessions of an email junkie
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My blog has served as an outlet. Even at times something of a confessional. The time has come again. I must confess.
Forgive me bloggers, for I have sinned. I am addicted.
To email accounts.
Note, I didn't confess to being addicted to email. I don't think I really am. Yes, I check it regularly, particularly a few weeks ago when it was high time for interview invitations to be sent out. But I don't spend inordinate amounts of time reading or writing emails. In fact, if anything, I probably should spend a little more time responding, as far too often I will get an email, and not respond for a rude amount of time.
However, I am addicted to email accounts. I admit it. I like to try the newest and greatest. I am determined to make sure that the email I am using meets not only my needs, but also my desires. And so I am constantly searching for and signing up for the latest and greatest email account. Truly, the list is obscene:
Original Hotmail account: No longer in use
Yahoo! account: Still in use
First Netscape account: No longer in use
Second Netscape account (created because I wanted a different screen name for AIM): Very rarely used
MSN account (created when we briefly signed up for MSN internet access): Has now become a Windows Mail beta account, use it rarely
Personal Gmail account: used daily
School Gmail account: used daily (I forward all my Duke mail to this address as Duke Webmail is a miserable experience)
Walla account (created to test the water of 1 gig email providers back when that was rare): don't even remember the login
30Gigs account: got an invite, it was 30 gigs, figured what the heck, haven't logged in since I created the account
And to be honest there are more. I think there is an Opera one, a Lycos one, and another one or two that I am forgetting at this time.
Yes, it very well may be a disease.
Part of the problem is that I have contacts who use one or the other email address. And while I could just send out a "Please update your address books" message, I hesitate to do so as many of these emails are years old and I promise things would get messed up in the process. Part of the problem is I love to try new things, and just have to at least be familiar with the options.
So there it is, a confession of an email junkie. But I prefer to think of myself as email informed.
Forgive me bloggers, for I have sinned. I am addicted.
To email accounts.
Note, I didn't confess to being addicted to email. I don't think I really am. Yes, I check it regularly, particularly a few weeks ago when it was high time for interview invitations to be sent out. But I don't spend inordinate amounts of time reading or writing emails. In fact, if anything, I probably should spend a little more time responding, as far too often I will get an email, and not respond for a rude amount of time.
However, I am addicted to email accounts. I admit it. I like to try the newest and greatest. I am determined to make sure that the email I am using meets not only my needs, but also my desires. And so I am constantly searching for and signing up for the latest and greatest email account. Truly, the list is obscene:
Original Hotmail account: No longer in use
Yahoo! account: Still in use
First Netscape account: No longer in use
Second Netscape account (created because I wanted a different screen name for AIM): Very rarely used
MSN account (created when we briefly signed up for MSN internet access): Has now become a Windows Mail beta account, use it rarely
Personal Gmail account: used daily
School Gmail account: used daily (I forward all my Duke mail to this address as Duke Webmail is a miserable experience)
Walla account (created to test the water of 1 gig email providers back when that was rare): don't even remember the login
30Gigs account: got an invite, it was 30 gigs, figured what the heck, haven't logged in since I created the account
And to be honest there are more. I think there is an Opera one, a Lycos one, and another one or two that I am forgetting at this time.
Yes, it very well may be a disease.
Part of the problem is that I have contacts who use one or the other email address. And while I could just send out a "Please update your address books" message, I hesitate to do so as many of these emails are years old and I promise things would get messed up in the process. Part of the problem is I love to try new things, and just have to at least be familiar with the options.
So there it is, a confession of an email junkie. But I prefer to think of myself as email informed.
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