This has been pissing me off for ages now. I have relatives living in other states and on the other side of the planet…they have the time to send me junk emails, stupid man-bashing jokes mostly…but never take the time to say “hi how are you and the kids, mine are fine”. They log on to the net, immediately change their status to “away” or “offline” and busily send these things off while ignoring real life and family.
i have never read these idiotic jokes, i happen to love my husband, my children and my life and find little, if any, reason to take joy in man-bashing. I would really love, however, to hear from relatives, their lives, their children.
...and heres an update.....I get a forwarded junk mail from one. 2 minutes later, another one forwards the same thing to me and my hubby. Now from one junk mail, there are 3 garbages in our inbox.
Lately I have been getting emails from distant friends and relatives asking me to join some club, SMS list, some program or an online friends community. They too never take the time to send a one-liner asking how I am doing.
I got an email from a once very close friend about joining some movie theatre free listing and I replied to him asking for his phone number. He hasn't replied yet but I have gotten a couple of more emails asking me to join his SMS list.
I have Outlook express 2005 and it automatically filters out my junk mail. I see my colleagues (on Lotus Notes) cleaning their mail boxes but not me.
All you Lotus notes users download the outlook connector for domino from MS. Work fine, you just cant open notes databases. For that use notes.
ok i have a question, would it be rude of me to ask them to stop sending me these things and instead drop a line or two about how they are doing?
i'm not a desi so not sure how to approach this without being rude but i'm at the end of the rope here, getting really pissed. but again, i dont want to piss them off or offend them either.
Yes, the sms invitations are horrible. I got an invitation a couple of times from the same person from a former email list. We hadn’t spoken for a long time, perhaps 2 years, I don’t know. anyway, I kept receiving her sms invitation, I finally joined and now I keep getting different sms messages from strange people inviting me to be their friend.
If you do get an invitation for this one, don’t do it:
Mamaof3 > I know exactly how you feel because the same happens to me! There are those relatives that send junk mail but make it a point to keep in touch with personal emails as well and then there are the others like the ones you described. I just block them because I know they won't send me a personal message and if they really wanted to keep in touch, they could always call.
Mamaof3, perhaps you could try it in a subtle way. Would it help to send them an email yourself, thank them for their joke but say something like 'I usually don't read jokes that much, but it's very kind of you to send them, I would like to know however how you are all doing, etc. etc.' And then tell them something about you and your family and see how they respond.
Rather than harbor bad feelings for these folks who know little about the net and less about communicating, send them a sugary-sweet note telling them that you've cut back the size of your email account because you have just become so busy with other things in life and you would much rather read about them than forwards.