The Disintegration of Email

I don't know if it's a reflection of my AuDHD or my age, but I remember when my email inbox used to be a place of interest; now it's just a giant toilet.

When did people switch from emailing to you, to emailing at you? The sender used to have a degree of etiquette and put thought into how the message was relevant to you, now the recipient seems to be accountable for extrapolating meaning from these word salads.

The same thing happened with physical, snail mail. The majority (and sometimes the only) mail received is stuff the recipient didn’t want or didn’t ask to receive, and yet it is still incumbent upon them to empty the mailbox every few days so that more murdered trees can be put in there addressed to the recipient “or the current resident.”

And texting and phone calls seem to be going the same way.

This steady abasement of communication channels is actually important, because the more annoying they become, the more the recipient is trained to ignore them (which kind of defeats the purpose).

Let's go back to cave walls and start again.