Email is becoming a big pain in the backside. Rarely do I receive an email with any personal thought put into it. Mostly I receive a lot of spam. Regularly I receive a few newsletters I intentionally subscribe to and read. Everyday I receive emails from well meaning friends and family members with the dreaded “FW” leading off in the subject line. I look at 1 out of every 1,000 of those. Most Fowarded emails come with lame subject lines about how important it is, about how you have to pass it on, or how you have never read anything like this. Pleeeeease…give me a break. Look, I realize that every once in a while someone writes something really profound that is worth sharing with friends. But hey, put some effort into it. Don’t just click an email list to forward it to. Think about who could really use the info and who would be blessed or helped by it. If i don’t come to mind, don’t send it. Better yet, write a personal note about how you were reading this and it made you think of me and how this would (help, bless, encourage, apply to my circumstances).
I used to think email was great. Mostly because I am so stinking tight I thought it would be great to get around the cost of postage. I’ve discovered that email just will never replace a good old fashioned hand written note or letter.
Go ahead and send the FW’s – but count on them being deleted 98% of the time.
Do you read emails that have been forwarded?
