How often do you read you e-mails?

cr0ssf41r13, You are my HERO! I am like your friends - I have email accounts that I fail to open for weeks at a time. Your topic caught my attention less than an hour after I re-activated 2 email accounts that were in 'pending deletion' stage! Luckily, I had a 60 day window. I think I failed to log in for about 40 days, but the accounts are OKAY now! I am learning how to use FILTERS, finally, in my email accounts, because TRULY, I stopped logging in to some accounts due to SPAM encounters. Now that I have learned how some of the filters in certain email accounts work, I think things will be much better and I will maintain my accounts better. It is an awful thing to avoid logging in to email accounts just to avoid the work of poring over which mails are spam and which are really from the newsletters or other things officially subscribed to. What is worse than that, however, is that 1 of the accounts re-activated and saved from deletion is an account I have had for a LONG TIME but I DID NOT ever read the instructions on how to use the account to its fullest extend until TODAY! That is the worst point I'm making.....many email account providers actually have quite nice tools for members, but many people (obviously, myself included!) simply IGNORE learning about their accounts and the services they are using. So, cr0ssf4r13, tho' I am not as organized yet as you seem to be, I hope to reach your stage of 'utility' and your 'responsible' standards sometime soon! I hope to actually reply to emails from friends (and biz acquaintances) on a better, more regular basis, too, and keep my accounts organized to the full extent of their service. Part of my disorganization has come from not knowing CLEARLY what purpose I wanted for each of my email accounts! I belong to some clubs and some other sites similar to myLot, so there are details about money-earning in some of my accounts, however, I didn't 'sign-up' well with certain sites or select the right email accounts to use to correspond with certain sites. Now - today - I just made a kind of 'sandox' address out of my most spam-receiving account and plan to filter out all my programs from there, taking 1 hour per day to do this until I am very organized. I will soon have all of my 'mylot and earning-program' emails going to a certain address and 'my webhost provider and hosting reseller programs' to be used under a different address. I will check back in this thread to see what others post under this topic. Hopefully other people will write about their emailing habits, too - and some of these will be VERY GOOD and responsible habits that I can pick up on!

well, I am a netizen as well. hehehe. I read my work mails everyday, in fact everytime when there is a new mail. I used Microsoft Outlook for that. Not only that, my Outlook is linked to my Hotmail and Gmail, both are my private emails and I read them too whenever there are new mails. I have "for fun" or casual emails, in which, those are most of the junk mails sent by my friends go to and I read them like once a week, over the weekend only.

Im a netizen to i guess LOL Everyday (monday -Friday) I get to work open my workstation log in to my work email first thing LOL then i pull up my yahoo email it stays on my computer all day long until time to go home then later on that night i check my mail again :) On weekend i check my mail about 4 to 5 times just depends on if im home or at my 2nd job where i have not computer

I admit I go on several times a day! Whenever I have a moment to check my mail, I will do it! Yep I am addicted lol

Hi crOss, I am a metizen also and I am always learning from you creative people online. Using e-mail accounts to store files as backup in ingenious. I am going to start it tonight. I have several e-mail accounts but I always have my IncredImail open in my task bar and it notifies me when I get new mail. I have had to change mail programs several times do to my inbox filling up with spam. Thanks for your informative post.

I'm forever checking my emails account, several times a day. I have 3 active yahoo accounts, each serve their own purpose, so I have to check them frequently.

Emails..u would be kidding.. I do that whole day.. sitting idle in the office whole day .. have nothing to do other than checking mails and forwarding it to friends.. However i have a restricted access to internet and moreover the company people have blocked access to public mailing sites so i don't have a free access to other mailing sites like Gmail or Rediff.. However i try my best and keep searching for options so that i can check my mails.. Mails help me in exchanging pics.. However my official mail.. i also use it for sharing the assignments so that we can copy the same and submit..lol

I am a netizen,I like surfing the net. I check my 126.com email in wirk from monday to friday. I use my gmail email to connect with business everyday. I use my yahoo email to connect with friends everyday.

It's open 24/7. I don't want to miss any email. I use for business and to connect to my friends. Like a mobile phone, it's becoming a necessity.

I actually do not use my email, unless for school or unless I have something important that I need to read and identify. But the thing is i like using email because it's cool and very useful. Alot of times I learn about different things that are going on around the community through email. But really I do not use email as often as most people. Usually I'm on other sites before I will email.

I always check my email whenever I have time. So it can be few times in a day. My husband does not really like it, he said it just waste my time. He suggested me to do my email once in a day when I really have time to read and reply the emails. I use the free email account so I just go to the site.

i have 3 address e-mail and i read it ten times at the day!

I open my email regularly. I use it to store files also. I actually do not erase important messages and keep them for reference in the future. I also have friends that do have email addresses but do not open them. It's because they do not netizen. ;)

well to be honest i don't open my mail box too often.i'm all the time busy managing my social network,i.e orkut. i check out my mail whenever i get notified by my friends that they've sent me an email.

i do read my email almost everyday when i have time... i use my email to communicate with my friends as well and check messages... also to keep track on the news of my friends... my email is very important for me as well...

whenever i am online, my gmail is open. so i check that say in every 30 mins to see if there is any new mails. But other mails i do not check so often.

First of all I must say something :) *wink* I would think the majority of the most active users on this site are the ones that are probably going to check their e-mails more often. Am I not correct? LOL Anyway...I run a business so I check my e-mails several times a day. However, sometimes I may be knee deep in work and not check it for a day or two.

I would have to say i am a netizan as well ( never heard of the word before today !!) like you i use my emails to connect to friends and busniess.i have a yahoo ans a msn account and open both around 3/4 times a day mayb more.

During weekdays I always checked my email everyday. At weekends or holidays I cannot check my email by then. I only got to check my email when I'm in the office. Although at our home there is an internet connection available but most of the time my brother-in-law is the one using it or my husband. They always play the DOTA-Allstars.

I open my yahoo email everyday and i think i also a netizen. I will surf almost the time to find all sort of information. And i stop surf when i finally shut down the computer at night