Do you ever check MyLot before you check your email? / myLot

Walnut Creek, California

September 4, 2021 10:49am CST

I was merrily MyLotting away this morning, with my first cup of coffee, when I realized I had not checked my email. Over the past 20 years or so, checking my email has been the first thing I do when I first visit the computer. I stopped and realized that maybe twice a week I check MyLot before I even check my email. No doubt a sign of addiction. What do you check first when you visit your computer or cell phone?

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (68084)

• United States

4 Sep 21

All. The. Time. I don’t have e-mail set up on the iPad (just on the phone), so I don’t deal with e-mails. Of course, I’m retired so it doesn’t matter what I get in the e-mail anyway. Except notifications of an Amazon delivery.

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vanny

@vandana7 (100297)

• India

5 Sep 21

Ha ha...I rarely order on Amazon. So far, whatever I have ordered on Amazon has been a huge disappointment. I ordered an epilator, they sent a second hand one...I ordered Kenstar food processor they sent a seconds from local manufacturer in Kenstar box. So Amazon is strictly no no for me.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

Hey, that reminds me! I have a shirt on the way!

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Greg

@xander6464 (44250)

• Wapello, Iowa

4 Sep 21

I'm glad I'm Orthodox Quaker. I don't have to worry about computers, phones or email...whatever that is.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (68084)

• United States

4 Sep 21

Love your oats.

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Greg

@xander6464 (44250)

• Wapello, Iowa

4 Sep 21

@FourWalls Bless you for noticing how good they are. I put a lot of time and effort into making sure they're perfect.

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@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

4 Sep 21

@FourWalls

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simplyme

@m_audrey6788 (58472)

• Germany

4 Sep 21

Guilty here. I check mylot more than my email

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

I'm sure I spend more time on MyLot than on email.

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simplyme

@m_audrey6788 (58472)

• Germany

5 Sep 21

@TheHorse

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

@m_audrey6788 Well, I've done bother this morning. I can't remember which I visited first.

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Torunn

@Torunn (8607)

• Norway

4 Sep 21

First work e-mail. Then personal e-mail. For the last 18 months the next thing have been The Number: how many new infections in Trondheim/Trøndelag. Then check if Oslo has lost control again. Now we've all lost control, so I started checking another number. I have to check the number of students signed up for our new course. They thought we would get 30. We have 120. 15th September is the closing date for signing up. Then I usually check facebook, the news and mylot.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

120? What kind of class is it? Can you handle 120?

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

@Torunn Yikes. Good luck. Don't they have enough rooms?

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Torunn

@Torunn (8607)

• Norway

4 Sep 21

@TheHorse No, campus is really too full. And it's build for classes between 20 and 40, so there's only 1 room which is big enough for everyone now. It has to be one meter between students in the auditoriums etc. Normally it would be 3 big rooms, still not enough, but better. By end September everyone will have had the time to get two vaccines though. It might get better then.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340162)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Sep 21

I open up tabs with gmail, myLot, fanstory, Duolingo and an endurance FB site. Mostly I'll glance at emails then go to myLot.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

I do pretty much the same thing. Most of the emails I get are from my "dear friends" at Best Buy, Guitar Center, etc. How did you get so into endurance rides? It's a cool thing to be into.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Sep 21

@JudyEv Makes sense to me.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340162)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Sep 21

@TheHorse I grew up with horses and had them most of my life but we went along to strap (help) a nephew then volunteered for various jobs. It's not much of a spectator sport and really, we'd rather be doing something than standing around. The nephew only rode a few times but we kept going along and helping out. When the photographer retired, Vince stepped in. He got to use his camera and I got my horse fix.

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Musyarofah

@Ghandra (201)

• Surabaya, Indonesia

5 Sep 21

for me i will check my whatsapp because my computer was broken and i always use my smartphone...

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

Got it. Is your computer fixed? I've never used whatsapp.

snowy

@snowy22315 (180805)

• United States

4 Sep 21

Generally yes, unless I am expecting something important.

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allen0187

@allen0187 (58582)

• Philippines

4 Sep 21

myLot is definitely one of the first sites that I check when I turn on my laptop.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223077)

• Chile

4 Sep 21

I´m addicted to mylot. Sometimes I don´t even check my mail.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

Heh. Many of us are addicted. But I always check my email eventually.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (136526)

• India

5 Sep 21

I check myLot the first thing I do on rising

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Always smiling

@allknowing (136526)

• India

5 Sep 21

@TheHorse Never heard of them.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

Have you been in touch with MA (MyLot Anoymous)?

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

@allknowing I recommend it. @Vandana7 can provide you with the details.

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Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (50256)

• United States

4 Sep 21

It varies day to day.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

I reckon it does for me as well.

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@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

4 Sep 21

I only use the phone, texts and books on my phone... on my laptop, I have myLot and SciShow already open and waiting for me. What's "email"?

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vanny

@vandana7 (100297)

• India

5 Sep 21

@DaddyEvil Evil Grin.

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@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

4 Sep 21

@TheHorse "Text: noun /tekst/ a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form."

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Sep 21

What's "text"?

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (106362)

• Marion, Ohio

5 Sep 21

I usually check the MSN news page and then my email

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218921)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Sep 21

Fake News, I say!

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Vree0937

@Vree0937 (3879)

• Indonesia

5 Sep 21

I usually drink a glass of water - plain one - before do anything else.

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@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

5 Sep 21

Yeah, but you're smarter than the rest of us...

@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

5 Sep 21

@Vree0937 I wake up thirsty all the time. I keep a sealed bottle of water on my headboard so I don't have to get up to get a drink.

I'm lazy...

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Vree0937

@Vree0937 (3879)

• Indonesia

5 Sep 21

@DaddyEvil haha..its a habit. Even sometime i woke up in the middle of the night, just to drink a plain water. Then sleep again

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Notlilie

@prinzcy (32305)

• Malaysia

11 Sep 21

If from my phone, I would check for messages from my BFF. I don't like to MyLot using my phone. It's hard to control.

vanny

@vandana7 (100297)

• India

5 Sep 21

I switch on. Net takes ages to come. So chess. Then even if it takes ages to come then free cell. Then even if it takes ages to come, then I check stocks on TV. Once it comes, YOUTUBE. There I need to switch on music. Yeah...that is where I go. At times I don't check my email for a week or fortnight. Happens. Once music starts, charge the cell phone. I don't know why I don't do it before. It is kinda ritual. LOL. After cell phone is placed to charge, myLot.

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@DaddyEvil (137259)

• United States

5 Sep 21

You do it that way to give the rest of us time to start worrying that vanny is online watching us but not saying anything... shhhh

... vanny will see you... is it time to hide yet? I don't see her... have you found a place to hide yet? Yeah, vanny will never find me here... and then,