I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love knowing that I can reach out and click someone. I am still amazed that in a matter of seconds I can contact someone on the other side of the world and receive a response. Instant gratification. It is pretty cool.
However, it is also pretty aggravating. Instant gratification has wreaked havoc upon my ability to be patient. If I don’t hear back from someone with a reasonable amount of time I start to wonder if they received my email.
Maybe it was caught in their spam filter. Maybe my ISP went down and it wasn’t delivered. Or maybe I sent it to the wrong address. Often times it is none of those things. Email has become so prevalent a lot of people take their time to respond. The rules of the blog dictate honesty so here is my reaction to that, it aggravates me.
Last night I received a response from an email I had sent out three weeks ago. The person who sent it hasn’t been out of town. They weren’t trapped beneath a heavy object or held captive. I know because they have sent out emails to a group that I am included on. All it would have taken to mollify me would have been a short response saying that they were busy and would get back to me.
But if that is the worst thing that happens to me I suppose that I can consider myself quite lucky.
JF,
Thanks.
Debbie,
Quite a few seem to prefer to be there than here in the light. 😉
Some people actually live in the dark ages, they don’t check their email but once a week. I know people like that. What’s the point of instant email? I could write them a snail mail letter instead. Or call them on the phone.
Have your friend watch this most excellent video.
No Max. She just called me to ask who posted that last comment. 🙂
Awww, is Stacey ignoring you?