I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn’t send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I’ve ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying “DEAL DEAL DEAL” or whatever.
Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information… but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.
It’s obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.
- Who are you?
- Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
- What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?
I live by the inbox zero philosophy. Every email in my inbox is a task that needs to be completed. When they come in, they get responded to if needed and then filed, archived, or deleted. So when a marketing email arrives to my inbox, I’m immediately unsubscribing so I won’t be spammed from that site again
This is the only way I’ve found to keep my inbox from having hundreds of unread messages piling up
This is how I used to do things. Then I went the other way. Now I just leave everything in my inbox. Fuck it. Email isn’t worth my time.
EDIT: I do still unsub from every marketing email I get. Things quiet down a lot when you do.
I do rubber-band inbox zero.
It’s when you get a ton of email that you’re like yea I need to do that, but then you procrastinate so long that eventually you’re like, well that can’t be important anymore, so you just archive most of it without reading it to get back to zero. 😂