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Hoarders vs. Deleters- What Your Inbox Says

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-all-so-simple-sometimes dept.

BlueCup writes "You are your inbox. Take a clear-eyed look at how you answer or file each email. Notice what you choose to keep or delete. Consider your anxiety when your inbox is jammed with unanswered messages. The makeup and tidiness of your inbox is a reflection of your habits, your mental health and, yes, even the way Mom and Dad raised you." I always knew my obsessive packratting said something important about me as a human being.

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  1. You are your inbox. by Kawolski · · Score: 4, Funny

    Full of spam? :(

    1. Re:You are your inbox. by StarvingSE · · Score: 3, Funny

      SPiced hAM - the meat of the gods, the meat that got the United States out of the great depression. Bow down to its unnaturally-pink goodness.

      --
      I got nothin'
  2. My Inbox by peterfa · · Score: 5, Funny

    My inbox is full of ads for a bigger penis, to get chicks, to make lots of money, etc. I wonder what this says about me. :/

  3. Delete! by ratboot · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it was important, another "have you forget" email will follow...

  4. Re:So what would they say about someone who by bunbuntheminilop · · Score: 2, Funny
    Perhaps something around the lines of

    "I for one welcome my email sorting and organizing overlord!"

  5. Re:What an excellent article. by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, and also for the record, I am organized. Every single one of my emails is filed exactly where it belongs -- ordered by date.

    --
    Breakfast served all day!
  6. Inbox agnostic by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    "You are your inbox. Take a clear-eyed look at how you answer or file each email. Notice what you choose to keep or delete. Consider your anxiety when your inbox is jammed with unanswered messages.

    Piss off. I'm not doing what you tell me to, and submitting you your repressive inbox-ocracy. I refuse to even consider the idea that an inbox exists.

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  7. Re:it's a skill.. by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    The inbox should be used for NEW, UNREAD MESSAGES ONLY!

    Who are you, the email Nazi? NO IMAP FOR YOU!

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  8. Re:Me vs. My Parents by pilgrim23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why keep email? I figure if I really need it later I could always call the NSA and have them restore it from their copy....

    No, you can't have my tinfoil hat. ..

    --
    - Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
  9. Re:gmail solved my clutter by pipingguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have on file [...] about 15 to 20 thousand e-mails, and it's always been a dilemma what to keep and what to throw away.

    I'm a Windows user, so that particular problem is taken care of for me every couple of years whether I like it or not.

  10. Do It, Defer It, Delegate It, Delete It by r00t · · Score: 2, Funny
    Do it -- you know you want it


    Defer it -- not tonight dear, I have a headache

    Delegate it -- go fuck yourself

    Delete it -- I'm leaving you

  11. My philosophy: by goldenratiophi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never delete and never respond.


    Is that bad?