I Have Email Overload
Boy do I get a lot of
that! I don’t know about any of you, but
I am a terrible offender about emailing myself links that I just don’t have
time to read right now. Sometimes I wish
I didn’t have to rush through things all the time because life sure would be
easier, but then I probably wouldn't accomplish much each day either. I guess some of these things can be a
double-edged sword.
I love all the new
technology we have these days. I can’t
imagine the world without the internet and email. And to think that only a few years ago, I
thought the fax machine was such a marvelous invention. I guess that's really showing my age.
Today you can find out anything about anything on the internet. Sometimes I wonder who had all the time to type up all that stuff. Keeping in touch has never been easier either. With email, the recipient gets it instantly, not like a letter that may take a week to arrive. Then they can answer you in their own time, making it convenient for everybody and better than picking up the phone sometimes.
I spend hours every
day at my computer because writing books takes a lot of time. It's so nice to know if I have to search for
a fact; it's right at my fingertips, just a click or two away. The only problem with this is I usually find
myself sidetracked by other info I want to read, and I really wasn’t looking
for just then. So hence, more email to
me from me. Having 4500 emails in my
inbox, at any given time, is a common thing for me. However, this presents another daunting
task. I have no extra time to go through
them, yet I can’t break myself from this habit.
Maybe there is a “Computer-a-holics Anonymous,” with an email division
that I can join.
I'm excited to see
where we are in twenty years. Of course,
by then maybe I’ll be too old to care, but technology is exciting.
This is re-blogged from a post I did in 2013. The same situation still applies with my email.
