Unruly Emails

Unruly Emails There was time when I got my first desktop computer that email fascinated me. I could read them, save them, print them or discard them with ease and would only have a few in my inbox.

Fast forward 20 years later. Now, I have not one, but 4 email accounts, and they are so flooded with email I can’t stand it. And I know the first thing you’re thinking is why on earth do you have 4 email accounts?

The first one is my work email account. This is where all my work related things get filtered. Also, as my oldest email account, it is the one most of my family and friends know should they need to contact me or send me something. And over the years, it’s grown from the campus alerts to all things library, higher education, teaching and reading related. And then there are the occasional ads for merchants that I frequent. Now the work email has a separate clutter area in addition to the junk mail feature. The clutter mailbox filters out sites you may have signed up for but not accessed frequently.

The 2nd email address is my Yahoo! Email addy. This is my 2nd oldest account, set up to filter personal correspondence away from my work email. I also had some of my early commercial accounts and restaurant email sent there. I used to do a lot out of my Yahoo account including chat and blog. No one IM chat chats anymore since cell phones took over that market. And Yahoo closed its blog server sending me archived blog in one big text doc. So out pure protest, I stopped using it, checking mail only when the server threatened to close my domain, which after so many years, I basically think of as trademarked. Then in 2010, I reactivated it, keeping it as a place where most of my mommy emails went.

Along came Gmail. When my hubby and I started sharing mutual items together, this account was set up so we could both access things. Shortly after that, I decided I needed an account dedicate purely to my professional writing aspirations. This is also the one connected to this blog, which is recently new. Blognotable Moments used to be More Unchained Thoughts which used to be Unchained Thoughts under Yahoo! I’m pretty sure Under the Cherry Moon was a blog name too in its early carnations but copyright law and all that.