Doing it rotten my own way

I turned off my email notification for the same reason. I was missing very important information delivered to my inbox. I jut check my friends discussions and I respond in random order, due to limited time I have now. HUGS

I work the lot the same way you do, in order to keep my inbox manageable. But I do go inactive periodically........especially when the hubs is home. So just in case you manage to overcome your procrastination in your life time, I will give you a heads up when I'm going to MIA for awhile. Otherwise I may never learn to rhyme!*sob*

I figured out early on that notifications of too many people would inundate my inbox of my email so I prefer to only do such for really special people, two came to mind, one was a good friend, GQ and the other was the person that brought me to MyLot and he is seldom active... I like those three very special tabs, (started, responded and friends started) I usually start with responded unless I am overwhelmed... Right now I feel quite overwhelmed so if you're not seeing my as active as normal, I can only apologize and suggest that my step mother answer for my distraction... Hmmm... Lefoot doctor needs a little exposure... I have to work on that...

I've had notifications turned off for over 2 years now, but only just turned them back on today! I was hoping that I'd be able to uncheck ALL the email boxes and not receive any mails at all, but now my inbox is already filling up fast! I'm pretty sure that it's only gonna be a day or so before I lose it and turn them all back off again. I get a heap pf emails on a daily basis as it is and just don't have the patience for it.

I wub woo Dawn! Please don't terminate me!

i have deleted some friends too in my life though who are not active in posting in mylot. not necessarily to my threads. cause i see that they will not going to be back online. i don't want to fill my list with those inactive ones. they will just clutter my list and it is really hard to get through the list with those inactive ones. i have always received email notifications from this sit.e and i love it. but i don't get too much emails from this site. cause there are not much replies in my discussions. and i don't make discussions any new ones lately. and most of the replies are just comment to the replies i have made to other people's discussions.

hi dawnald...well if you think its the best then do it...and im thinking too of getting rid of those inactive ones ..im hoping that i hit the right button to those friends who are not active...

I don't have all my notifications turned on. I accept most friend requests but when I check people's profiles, what I find there determines whose notifications are turned on. So use your memory and turn on those notifications you think you will be able to respond to. Also, bit by bit, clean out your friends list. Truly, it's worth it. Answering from email makes it really easy. If you ever get on top of your emails, go back to answering from the tabs again till your emails add up again. You are doing it right - it just should be the other way round. I love your avatar.

Hi Miss Dawn, By the way i tried that other site, its ok. but not really for me. Anyways, I usually just pick and choose who gets turned on and who doesn't. After all someone like me has to be picky about their turn ons right?? LOL. Have fun cleaning things out!!!

You need to delete your email notifications as soon as you read them. That's what I do and my in-box stays very tidy. Its works well if (lets say) you have 4 notifications in your in-box read the first one and without scrolling up hit delete at the bottom left, and presto your next notification is right there for you to read. Once read they are of no use to keep because they are on the myLot site anyway.

I hope I won't get the boot I agree that doing things through the tabs is frustrating because discussions get 'bumped' when they receive responses and are easily missed. I try and cope with notifiers but that can be tiresome too

You got a BohemianHeart avatar!!!! And she's beautiful, Dawn!!! Well, if you're the world's best procrastinator, I must be second best. There's nothin I can't put off. After all, why do today what you can put off till tomorrow. You can open a brand new e-mail account, darlin. I did the same thing. I used to have one with Yahoo, still do I guess, but it was inundated with the same sort of thing and just drove me crazy, so I opened a new one with hotmail. And I don't have my notifications turned on either, because I don't want this one getting stuffed to the gills with them, like the other one. I don't dare even go near it! Too scary to think about. What I do these days is just go to discussions started by my friends and be done with it. There's always enough there to choose from if I feel like typing. Ok, I'm outta here. See ya later, alligator.

Kewl! Great idea!

Good idea, organization is good for the soul Im convicnced.

It is nice to be organized,but I find that my email fills up too fast with my notifications on all the time.I try to adjust it as much as I can. I do usually just use the tabs and I find that I can get alot more answered although I know that I miss some and I know that there are always friends discussions that I have missed. However, I don't always have time to answer all of them so I just have to do what I can. Good luck with whatever you do as far as getting your discussions taken care of.

I know you can change your e-mail address because I did. As for the rest of it, I need to do those things also. It just gets away from you or rather me.

If you delete me thne I will huff and I will puff and I will blow your house in! So there!

I don't get too many in the e-mail because a lot of my friends are too busy responding and they only post a few. The more posts they have the less they seem to start. *shrug* I don't know how that works but it does. I don't respond to all things because some things just don't fit. And if I see that some one mostly posts things that doesn't relate, then I turn off the notifier. I hope you get a system that works for you.