Archive for April 11th, 2009

You know you’re crossed a line when you dread opening your email box. This week, I’ve received all of the following:

1. Weekly e-news service I never signed up for. I think they got my email address from a professional organization, talking about assets I don’t possess and financial dilemas that don’t apply.

2. Contacts from My Space which I signed up for two years ago and quickly recognized as something I could never really be part of, but which I never figured out how to delete my name from their account holder list. So now they tell people I am part of the organization. Let me make this clear, not that anyone will find it here: I Do Not Have a My Space Page. They flash too much.

3. Demands for confidential information from both spammers and relatives.

4. A  ”CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL” from a guy called Kosi Asu. He claims to be an auditor for a place called the First Bank of Togo. And in order for me to reap millions, he needs my banking information. I was not impressed with his grammar or his originality. I receive two to three of these offers a day.

5. Numerous notifications that people are now following a twitter account belonging to a local writer’s group. I no longer manage the account, but it appears no one else cares to manage it either. It’s amazing that people keep adding themselves to follow it, since no one is really keeping the account updated.

Why do I get such bad, non-personal email? I know, I know. In order to get personal email, you have to write personal email. Actually, some of the personal email I’ve received lately has been downright passive agressive, assuming I’m going to be places I’m not going to be, doing things I have no intention of doing, and making me wonder if I should just request people call me on the phone.

What do you think? Is anyone sick of bad email?