Spam.
I have a confession to make.
I sign up to spam. All the time. It’s like I can’t help myself. I know that my inbox is going to get flooded with things I don’t want and don’t care about, but… at the time when whatever product I am looking at, or coupon I am searching for asks me “do you want to sign up for our weekly newsletter?” “Sign up here so we can notify you of new offers and deals!” I automatically just plug in my information. It’s like a reflex.
And at the time I am doing it, I always really believe, “well this stuff is useful!”
So if I believe it then, why when the emails start coming in do I just groan and delete them all without even opening them!? What the hell is “My Rewards Points” anyway? When did I become a member? Why are shop rite always emailing me about $1.99 lb chicken breast offer? Did I buy a substantial amount of chicken breast from them once and sign up to a chicken lovers e-promotion. Don’t you ever have deals on beef shop rite? Maybe you do, and I don’t realize it because I never open your emails.
This morning I was so pleased when my rainmeter told me I had 53 new emails my initial reaction was “Hey! Look who’s popular!!” of course once I opened my email I found out that every single one of them was either spam or facebook notifications. (Which are pretty close to being classed as spam anyway in my humble opinion.) I was disappointed. Not by the lack of meaningful emails I had expected to receive – but didn’t, but by the fact that I am enough of a sucker to sign up to all this rubbish all the time anyway. I mean, Kitsu Saga? What the hell is that? Some terrible MMO I played for 2 seconds before uninstalling. Why do I care if we get a mount with the next update?! (What kind of mount? Is it a pony?) Speaking of mounts and bad MMO’s, Blizzard Entertainment, why are you still sending me emails? I have not played you’re really boring and overrated game since 2006! That’s 4 years! Why have I been putting up with emails from you for that long?!
I took my dog for a nice long walk after that disappointment so I could enjoy this lovely autumn sunshine and we could go crunching in leaves. Leave crunching always cheers me up.
Now I’m back in front of my laptop, and I have an additional 9 spam emails which have just appeared in my inbox. (Who or what the hell is dogfunk?! And when did I sign up for Sparkpeople!? Me, fit and healthy!? Hahahahah. I must have been high.)
I can’t go on like this. This constant bombardment of junk. If I don’t check my email for just 48 hours I end up with over a hundred emails. Do you know how often my Mum’s emails get buried in all that junk! Sometimes I don’t find them for a week because I’m just too lazy to check the little boxes on all the spam suspects and delete them. I need to put a stop to it. I need to find the will to say NO to spam. I don’t need this crap cluttering up my inbox. Hell, one of the spam emails I just received was called “Unclutterer” is that even a word?!
Today is the day. I have to unsubscribe from everything I’ve already gotten, and then I need to ignore any suggestions from companies to “sign up” to anything.
Except, maybe I should keep the shop rite ones… at least until I get back home to Australia… there might be a good coupon for granola in there… and I guess knowing about cheap flights to Asia is not such a bad thing… I mean… hey… I do like to travel… So maybe I’ll just keep a few of them. Just the good ones right? (There are good ones… right?)
