There are all sorts of net users. One group is composed of people who only come to check and write emails. They are usually businessmen or busy people who have other better things to do. Others come online for more than one reason– to check their emails and at the same time do other online tasks. However, I belong to one small group of internet users who only come to update my Facebook status, write blogs and participate in forums. My online tasks do not happen to include logging in to my email.
This has put me in trouble because the accumulation of too many unread emails has made it impossible for me to clean my inbox. How do you expect an ordinary person to read the close to 10,000 unread emails in one visit? The number just overwhelmed me that I decided to leave it just like that. However when a friend told me that failure to clean my inbox will disable it from receiving future emails, I decided to resolve to start reading, deleting and cleaning my overloaded inbox. I forced my lazy self to get started with it. Every time I come online I’d read and delete, read and delete, read and delete. But much of the time there was more deleting that happen than reading because majority of the emails are spam or scam mails. I did this regularly until one day, from 10,000 I got down to 699. That’s less than a hundred now. And because I do not want to waste all my time doing nothing but deleting junk from my email, I’d see to it that I leave some for next time so I can move on to my other online work. With less than a hundred junk now, I can now peacefully accomplish my work online with a lot of ease and confidence because I have finally done something to remove the clutter in my inbox.
Read more: http://webupon.com/e-mail/a-case-of-email-overload/#ixzz1qlsnyFDg
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