Check My Email ~ I'm Drowning in it

Please check my email unsubscribe and stop emailing me. Are we personally better off with having email auto responders so readily available to us all? I find myself during the course of a day flitting betwixt and between email accounts to get login details and verification emails etc and I seem to spend a lot of unproductive time reading emails. So are we really better off now than we were 4 years ago?

The answer I think is yes and no ~the good old 80/20 rule. Yes, it's great being able to get such a fast response but we are also hampered by our own sense of curiosity and obligation. And I for one am getting bogged down with emails from various lists I have joined over time. It's fast getting to the stage where the only way out of this madness is to unsubscribe from all lists!

And in the future to stop being tempted by this and that free eBook. For me, it's got completely out of hand. No more, I have to stop.

When we click on over to whichever email account we have used to get that 'free' eBook that originally interested us, or a verification message we have to respond to, we usually find one or more other emails in there from previous programs we have joined or from friends.

Often from our friends it's just a forwarded joke or message and only sometimes a real email. What they are really saying is "hey I miss you and I think this will brighten your day" and it does. The problem is that it's not just the one email from one friend it can be emails from several friends all doing the same thing and it often turns out to be 3-4 jokes per person. Stop! Please, I'm slowly running out of ticker here like a run-down clock that needs rewinding.

Since someone advocated the use of the bottom half of the thankyou emails we have to send out when someone subscribes to our lists or actually buys a product from us, it's been my downfall. Because these marketers know their stuff and include other products that are in line with my interests/needs I have ended up subscribing to those "free" lists too and three days later, I have an email account or two full of new product launches/can't miss bargains/only ever-chance-to-get products being thrust at me.

Help! I'm drowning under the weight of free eBooks and people's lists. All I wanted was the original information offered in the 'freebie'

The good old unsubscribe link at the bottom of most emails is no guarantee that will be the end of those emails either. It's been my experience that some really well known guru's will try to reactivate their unsubscribed lists periodically and to me, this guarantees I will never subscribe to any of their lists again. It's immoral, unethical and dishonest in my opinion.

So the answer I think is use some discipline, simply get selfish and to activate the verification code, get the freebie and then unsubscribe from the very next email. So I suppose my question that I'm uncomfortable with is simply this: "What's really the point in offering all this free stuff when people are going to take and run?" Because it's the only way I can think to stop this onslaught of email.