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I had a roommate like that. The man missed out on a number of important opportunities because he just plain never checked his email. These people exist and it b

• tatersolid 8y ago
  Why would you expect investing a few seconds of your time to push your words unsolicited at someone to create a sense of obligation in the recipient? The problem with email is it’s too easy to send, and I get 100+ non-spam per day between work and personal. I do not have time to read, let alone respond to 100+ emails per day. So I triage them as best I can, and a lot get binned based on sender or subject alone. The walled gardens improve on email and XMPP because they’re walled.
  • neurotrace 8y ago
    Oh sure, I was never arguing for that. I'm just saying that you need to at least attempt to triage your emails. You can at least make the conscious decision of "I'm not going to deal with this email." However, I will say that walled gardens do not necessarily improve on this problem. If everyone is within the same walls then it's the same situation all over again.
  • asdff 8y ago
    You can't control those walls though. With email, you can craft the most convoluted rules and sure it's not always clear how to get a rule to do what you want, but you have total power in building up your own walled garden to your personal preferences, not whatever preferences are studied to get the most ad revenue and waste the most amount of your time without wasting so much that you get frustrated and leave the platform.