Every morning and evening I turn on my computer to check and see who may have contacted me by email. As I open my email I wait in anticipation excited to see which of my friends or family has sent me new pictures of the family, pets or just an email to update me about what is going on in their life. However instead of seeing these emails I am flooded by a crap load of spam.
It is common when my email opens to see no less than 75 emails in my spam folder and then another 20 in my regular inbox. I go through the normal process of deleting these emails while trying to retain my temper as I wonder why and how these spam emails are still getting through.
Like most people I use an outside email service that is supposed to have a spam filtering program or at least they advertise that they do. In fact now that I think about it my email provider notes proudly that they are committed to eliminating spam. If that is the case then why in the hell is it that every day I have to delete the same 75 spam emails from my mailbox that I did the day before? And I don’t do this just once a day but at least twice a day. Yes that’s right, I see more than 150 spam emails every day in my personal email and I am sick of it.
I’m sick of real and fake businesses trying to get me to open their advertisements. I’m tired of seeing spam emails advertising dating or offering for me to “see their pics.” I don’t want the same retailer sending me the same sales flyer three times in a row, just to make sure that I “don’t miss out on this sale.” And I’m tired of just getting the spam cleared out and just as I start an email another 5 spam emails land in my mailbox.
Is there any end in sight to spam or is this just what the world of emailing has become? And if this is what email has become is it going to move some of us back to the old way of communication – hand writing letters and sending via snail mail? I guess it could happen, if I can find where I put my pen and pad of paper as well as learn to wait a week or longer for those pictures or that note from my family and friends.
Spam, it really should only be that unknown block of mystery meat that comes in a can and not a bunch of bullshit emails in our inboxes.
