This is simply a shout out to all of the people who actually know me and have my g-mail account in their contacts, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who has this problem with their friends.
Have you ever been criticized for something you didn't do, like you couldn't find your dad's stuff 'cause it wasn't in the place he told you it was but then he whips it out five seconds later? And no matter how many times you explain it, people still get up in your business about the same crap not two days later? Well, my friends have recently noticed that I "don't read my emails".
Here's where I started to lose it.
Number one, I DO read my emails. What they don't seem to understand from me telling them day after day is that, thanks to the laptop and internet I've been allowed to have, I check my g-mail inbox EVERY SINGLE DAY. I click on Chrome everyday, and all of my bookmarks and favorites open up automatically. I check new posts on my favorite websites, see what new videos my subscriptions have notified me about, scroll through my online course over-due lessons, and I check my email. Every time. Every day. The g-mail window is, like, right there. In fact, I can't not check my email. I'm always logged on, and the new emails just stare me in the face, basically saying "read me".
Now, here's where they started to lose it.
"Bro, did you get my email?"
"Which one?"
"Oh, that's right, you never check your email."
"Bro, just tell me which one. How do you know I didn't see it?"
"Nope, you never check it, I'm sure you didn't see it."
"Just tell me which one, dude!"
"The one about the blah-blah-blah."
"Oh, yeah, I saw it. That was pretty interesting. Why were you so convinced I hadn't seen it?"
"You didn't reply."
If an email didn't have a subject, then no, I didn't read it, because you intentionally made me not care. "What's the email about? Click it and find out!" That's not gonna happen. What the heck do you want to tell me?
Anyone who disagrees and is reading this now, tell me you would have read this post if there hadn't been a title. If you say yes, I won't freakin' believe you until you make a video with you saying with a straight face that you wouldn't have cared for a title on this post and post it in the comments section. In fact, if five people tell me in the comments that they don't care if there's a title or not, my next eventual post won't have one. Then you tell me that you didn't shiver.
Have you ever been criticized for something you didn't do, like you couldn't find your dad's stuff 'cause it wasn't in the place he told you it was but then he whips it out five seconds later? And no matter how many times you explain it, people still get up in your business about the same crap not two days later? Well, my friends have recently noticed that I "don't read my emails".
Here's where I started to lose it.
Number one, I DO read my emails. What they don't seem to understand from me telling them day after day is that, thanks to the laptop and internet I've been allowed to have, I check my g-mail inbox EVERY SINGLE DAY. I click on Chrome everyday, and all of my bookmarks and favorites open up automatically. I check new posts on my favorite websites, see what new videos my subscriptions have notified me about, scroll through my online course over-due lessons, and I check my email. Every time. Every day. The g-mail window is, like, right there. In fact, I can't not check my email. I'm always logged on, and the new emails just stare me in the face, basically saying "read me".
Now, here's where they started to lose it.
"Bro, did you get my email?"
"Which one?"
"Oh, that's right, you never check your email."
"Bro, just tell me which one. How do you know I didn't see it?"
"Nope, you never check it, I'm sure you didn't see it."
"Just tell me which one, dude!"
"The one about the blah-blah-blah."
"Oh, yeah, I saw it. That was pretty interesting. Why were you so convinced I hadn't seen it?"
"You didn't reply."
Wh-wh-wha? Wh...What? WHAT?! Huh?! Wh..?!
Someone actually said that to me! And before I knew it, I realized that if I don't reply to an email when everyone else did, everyone assumes I didn't even see it! It's as if the "reply" button to me is the "okay, I read your useless, waste-of-time, oh-my-god-new-gaming-console email" button to everyone else!
People, I can READ. It's possible with eyes, I swear. I look at words and I can read them. If your email consists of words and I see it, I can read it. I WILL read it. If I don't reply to your email, don't immediately assume that I'm dismissing it or that I didn't care enough to click on it. In fact, on that note, if someone who can change the g-mail format reads this, you should add a little side box for everyone to see how many of the guys they sent an email to clicked on it. Shouldn't be too hard. Then they won't attack you on the streets in front of your house.
Another thing that may be considered a personal preference of mine is the availability of an interesting, or in the very least available, subject on an email. The email window gives you the "option" to place a subject of the matter you'd like to share with your cohorts. Bro, that's not an option. That's a freakin' requirement. If an email says "no subject", I personally don't even click on it. I feel like I was denied something really important, or that the person sending the email is, like, daring me or taunting me by not telling me what's going on. Even in real-life, you don't just go see your friend for no reason. Yeah, that's what I see subjects as: a reason.
When someone comes over, the first thing that comes to your mind, if you hadn't invited that person, is "why are they here?" or "what do they want?" or simply "what's up?". And when you go to the door, that person won't just stroll into your house and start doing stuff. No. They'll tell you what's up, and a series of events spawn. It could be good news, bad news, funny news. But you need to know what type of news is going on or you'll just be confused, your mind constantly repeating "so?". So yeah, me checking my email is me chilling at home, the email itself is my friend suddenly showing up, and the subject of the email is what's up. Then the rest of the email is what goes on after that.
When someone comes over, the first thing that comes to your mind, if you hadn't invited that person, is "why are they here?" or "what do they want?" or simply "what's up?". And when you go to the door, that person won't just stroll into your house and start doing stuff. No. They'll tell you what's up, and a series of events spawn. It could be good news, bad news, funny news. But you need to know what type of news is going on or you'll just be confused, your mind constantly repeating "so?". So yeah, me checking my email is me chilling at home, the email itself is my friend suddenly showing up, and the subject of the email is what's up. Then the rest of the email is what goes on after that.
If an email didn't have a subject, then no, I didn't read it, because you intentionally made me not care. "What's the email about? Click it and find out!" That's not gonna happen. What the heck do you want to tell me?
Now, if an email does have a subject, and it seems relevant to life depending on my mood, I'll read the preview. Then, if I'm interested, I'll click the full link. If I see a "check this out..." or a "hey, I was wondering..." or something like that, and the subject has already given me a look into what this might be about, you have me interested. But if I see a "no subject" and then a bunch of "hey dude lol chck ths out rlly fnny #lmao", go home and cry rivers because I don't care at that point.
Anyone who disagrees and is reading this now, tell me you would have read this post if there hadn't been a title. If you say yes, I won't freakin' believe you until you make a video with you saying with a straight face that you wouldn't have cared for a title on this post and post it in the comments section. In fact, if five people tell me in the comments that they don't care if there's a title or not, my next eventual post won't have one. Then you tell me that you didn't shiver.
No title? sssssssssssssssss.....that sucks.
I mean, jeez!
Until next we meet.
