Wednesday, 30 July 2008

what's the point of emailing your friends anymore?

I just realised today -- I know, I'm slow -- another contributor to the introverted global community we are becoming...

Most people choose to bcc when sending group emails these days.

In fact one of the reasons I started this blog was to not bombard my friends with my opinions when I can remember I actually have a blog, or 5!

Some "friends" find my opinions and general who-ha emails offensive, or unimportant in the grand scheme of their mundane, self-aggrandizing lives; which has me on a constant mission to redefine my "friends list".

My blog allows comments, so it can encourage discussion. However Gmail is great for threading email conversations together, and since most of my friends use it, it's not like it's going to clutter your inbox with massive amounts of messages from the -- hopefully -- ensuing "reply alls".

So what I want to know is why? Why are we all so afraid of having someone reply all?

I don't understand, you send a link to youtube, a news article, a blog post, whatever!! Yet people are afraid of people they know interacting...

If it's not worth people you know and like enough to send the email out to, why are you sending it in the first place!!?

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