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What does it mean to be "addicted" to email? Emails are very important, but in an ideal world I'd spend as minimal time as possible handling emails.
by patejam 9y ago
What does it mean to be "addicted" to email? Emails are very important, but in an ideal world I'd spend as minimal time as possible handling emails.
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- nashashmi 9y agoI once saw a guy first hand with visible addiction to email. He was addicted to email like I was addicted to HN and tech news or other people are addicted to Facebook (news). There's no more news to read yet you still check. There is no more Facebook post yet you still check. There are no more emails for the day yet you still check.
- wott 9y agoI can't tell if the comment to which you answer (and its other reply) is serious or sarcastic: great, lucky, be able to, addicted, team, super, responsive, science of email, next level. Sounds like a bingo (I almost had to keep 50% of the text in my selection...). The reply is of the same kind: changed completely, my relationship (with email!), become indispensable. Plus the "200 mails a day, wow". It reminds me of my former manager, who couldn't be arsed not to destroy the emails I sent him (must have been a zero-inbox maniac): "You know, I have to manage 80, sometimes 100 mails a day." and forced me to recompose them to send them again (because he suddenly couldn't wait that I come back on the machine on which I typed the original mail). Yeah, well, I've been getting 300 to 800 mails a day for the last 25 years and I have them all archived (OK, for the 20 years old ones, they must be on a hard drive... somewhere :-) but you could ask me anything for the last couple of years and I would find it after a few minutes, worst case. I even found my Fidonet netmails a couple of years ago). I never lost a mail since I don't delete any (except the occasional spam which got through anti-spam layers).