Hoarders vs. Deleters- What Your Inbox Says

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.

You are your inbox.

[Kawolski]

Full of spam? :(

My Inbox

[peterfa]

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. :/

Delete!

[ratboot]

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

Re:So what would they say about someone who

[bunbuntheminilop]

Perhaps something around the lines of

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

Re:What an excellent article.

[PCM2]

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

Re:You are your inbox.

[StarvingSE]

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.

Inbox agnostic

[dangitman]

"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.

Re:it's a skill..

[dangitman]

The inbox should be used for NEW, UNREAD MESSAGES ONLY!

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

Re:Me vs. My Parents

[pilgrim23]

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. ..

Re:gmail solved my clutter

[pipingguy]

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.

Do It, Defer It, Delegate It, Delete It

[r00t]

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

My philosophy:

[goldenratiophi]

Never delete and never respond.


Is that bad?