How Many Times Have You Gotten So Behind You Just Deleted ALL NOTIFIES?
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
September 27, 2008 5:28pm CST
i have all mine on.. i know im crazy.. BUT when i am on the computer regularlly then i can keep up.. well my schedule has been crazy and i have missed a day here and there and BOOM i am 3 days behind on some.. my inbox refused to get lower than a couple of hundred new emails no matter how hard i worked.. so i after awhile just delete all the older ones and just focus on any new ones people do.. im afraid i am missing out but if i am gonna stay so far behind i wont be answering some people till a couple of days later..
anyone else just deleted a whole bunch of notifies since they lost hope in catching up? i know i could just turn them off but everyones would get so buried in my home page that i would have less success looking there than my emails grr
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
27 Sep 08
Moonlit..when i'm behind like today i just delete my emails and go to friends started and see whose discussions i missed and respond there..I try to go all the way back so i won't miss anyone but it does happen sometimes...
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
28 Sep 08
yeah i always miss something that way which is why i put on notify.. some people say i should just narrow down the amount of friends i have on notify but then i wouldnt know who to pick and choose from lol
@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
27 Sep 08
This usually happens to me after I return from holidays. There is no way that I would ever be able to catch up on two weeks of notifications so I very quickly scroll through all of them. I respond to a few easy ones and then I just delete the remainder. I am sure the my friends don't expect me to to respond to every one of their posts as there are always some subjects that I either wouldn't be interested in or I wouldn't know anything about. As long as they here from me every once in a while I am sure they will know that I am still their friend.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
28 Sep 08
i try to keep totally on top of things and a lot of friends are great about doing that with me so i feel bad if i possibly missed something and i never go to the home area to look through it there
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
28 Sep 08
just about everyday, I get more mail than I can handle in a day. I have no choice but to delete.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Sep 08
I don't miss anything I want to read when I have time to read them I look at the topic and if it is wishy washy delete delete delete
when I am working on a assignment I delete everythings cause I just can't waste my time here when I needed to be making money to pay the bills.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
yeah unfortunately its just impossible.. which i hate because i am just paranoid that im missing the good stuff lol
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
15 Nov 08
I'm in the same boat so what I do is put the older ones in a folder then I answer the newer ones and some of the older ones...that way I'm taking care of both. It's time consuming but worth it.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
15 Nov 08
yeah im trying that but after awhile they all start looking the same.. lol.. i dont do it often (delete them) but if i take a day or two off ive got hundreds of emails from mylot alone so it gets pretty crazy
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
28 Sep 08
Personally, I only have one notification turned on. I learned (at another site) not to do the notifications. At that site, some gliche happened and we weren't getting any notifications. Then when it was fixed about 3 days later, I had 6,000 emails. No way I'm ever doing that again. My friends know that I don't use the notifier system. If they want me to see something (that I haven't already found), they can PM me.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
i wouldnt know who to pm about mine lol.. i could definitely see the 6000 thing happening to me lol
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I am always behind/never caught up and I probably never will get there lol. I read more than I answer because I usually read all the responses and comment. I haven't deleted much, I just don't get around to everything. Do people really respond to every notify? How do they have time??
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
well one person so far that has replied to this has said she does.. i dunno how!! but awesome for her!!
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
28 Sep 08
I am way behind, but I will never delete a notification. That's like throwing good money out the window. All my MyLot notifications go into a special MyLot folder, and they don't get deleted until I've looked at them, and answered them, if i HAVE SOMETHING to say.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
28 Sep 08
i know i am having a hard time on figuring out what to say to the ones lately.. which is making me take longer and helping me get behind lol.. cant win!! i should make a folder.. not sure on how to do that with gmail..
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
28 Sep 08
I have put the notify on button for those friends who post quality posts here. Sometimes yes I receive a lot of notifications that I cannot handle them. I just leave them in my inbox until I catch up with my emails.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
well i tried leaving them till i could get around to but on my regular email addy i log in to at least 200 emails and im on all day so add in i dunno how many more BEFORE mylot so now its like insane!! not to mention i have other email addys for other things agh.. wanted to pull my hair out.. before i knew it i was answering discussions a week old
@aidenw (632)
• United States
28 Sep 08
i just lived through my first hurricane (Ike) and we had no electricity for almost 2 weeks. during that period i was able to access the internet once from a relative's computer and found plenty of notifies from mylot in my inbox. there was no way i could catch up with all of them because my time was limited so i had to delete them all and then turned off all of them. just got my electricity back a couple of days ago and i'm still playing catch up with everything (not just mylot), so i still haven't turned them back on.
btw, gmail uses 'labels' instead of folders but they're basically the same thing. so you can create 'labels' for mylot in gmail.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
im so glad you are ok!! your lucky to have gotten your electricity back on so soon
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
yeah i am always doing a few things at once so im always delayed on returning emails 
but i do get around to answering them 
and thanks for understanding that.. some people just think im ignoring them when i dont have my email up or im away from the pc or something lol
but i do get around to answering them and thanks for understanding that.. some people just think im ignoring them when i dont have my email up or im away from the pc or something lol
@ningyuhui2009 (200)
• China
28 Sep 08
Oh!yes!I have already recieved 250 emails today!I also can not catch up with it!I also have not much time to deal with it .I already delete all of them!I hope it is not very serious !
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 08
haha.. i have a ton of newsletters im having to axe too
