It’s horrible. I’m deleting about 89% of the e-mail in my inbox unopened. Well, maybe that’s not so horrible. It’s not that I don’t want to get the e-mail exactly, it’s just that I don’t need to read it to know what it says. There’s a lot of job hunting related e-mail that I don’t need to read anymore that comes from recruiters– I suppose I could give them a courtesy e-mail reply but I usually don’t. There are notices from Second Life which are fun to get, but usually involve things that I can’t attend since they happen when I work. I still get things from some Bay Area yahoo groups which I should turn off, eventually, but this gives me the feeling of being in touch. Still, I don’t read them, just the Subject line is enough for me. There are the notices from all the invites I sent out on LinkdIn — no need to read those. The problem is, the few e-mails I do want to read are lost in this sea of e-mails I don’t want to read and it’s a little hard to pick them out all the time. I’m not sure if I need to call it quits with this one account or not and set up another one for just really personal e-mails, or have people send personal e-mail to my phone as a sort of walled garden, or what. If I set up a new gmail address, would I ever go back and read this one? I’ve given out tamouse at gmail to lots of places and i’ve given out tamara at tamaratemple to all the business contacts so those are pretty polluted name spaces now. Plus there’s the hassle of getting everyone to change addresses. Do I say “I’m only going to pay attention to e-mail on this address from now on?” Maybe so.

Comments and thoughts welcome, please.