When email was "invented" I loved it! Couldn't wait to get to my mailbox and connect with friends and family spread all over the country. And at work - it was a tool that helped me all day, every day!
Now that I'm retired I still enjoy checking email in the morning….but I don't hear from nearly as many friends. I guess most of the civilized world has moved on to Twitter or Instagram or whatever. Shorter messages??? Easier ways to spread videos??? I don't know because I'm still stuck on email.
And I do still love it. I'll hear from a friend in Massachusetts or North Carolina. Sometimes some friends who live (at least part of the year) in Florida and family in Washington State. My email connections are in Indiana and Illinois…and some right down in Milwaukee.
Then there are the dozens of others. My new friends at Home Depot, Sailrite, Wayfair, various insurance agencies and National Geographic. Almost daily emails from Fidelity Investments, Connecting Threads and Travelocity etc. etc.
I understand why I am getting a lot of these - but many of the others are a complete mystery. I have no idea how I got on their lists. But now, instead of quickly deleting, I scroll to the bottom and look for the SMALL print that says "click here if you wish to unsubscribe" and I click.
So far I think I've gotten rid of about 20……progress I guess.
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