How Many Messages Do You have in Your Email Account? Do you even read or delete them?

Philippines
October 31, 2009 12:19pm CST
How many messages do you have in your email account? Do you bother to read it? Delete it? Or just don't do anything? Mine is about 5 years now and it has 10009 unread messages, but I've already deleted some. This doesn't count the spam, I think I have 108 of them, most of the messages came from social networking sites. What's yours? Do you tend to delete them or just let it be that way?
15 responses
• Boston, Massachusetts
1 Nov 09
Hi Charmz, I used to receive 30 to 60 emails everyday. I checked on it one by one. Some are comments from my posts that i responded back again and again. Majority are new discussions that my friend started. I enjoy reading them and tried to respond to all their posts. This is one way of showing my appreciation to my mylot friends who always respond to my discussions and a way also to inspire them to keep on. I don't delete them. I created a two folders for mylot-- 1 for the comments and 1 for the new discussions. I love Mytlot and am really enjoying this!
• Philippines
3 Nov 09
You gave me a very nice tip there so the BR is yours. LOL. Happy mylotting!
• Boston, Massachusetts
3 Nov 09
thanks for the BR friend!
• American Samoa
31 Oct 09
for my part charmz, i receive mails almost every hour. I clean or delete them everytime or after i read them.. or if it is an important one i'll make a new folder and put the messages there so that it will be organized and my mail would not be so tidy. Sometimes, I put the unnecessary messages to the spam messages.
• Philippines
31 Oct 09
Very nice, I'm too lazy to do that. Especially if its a hundred emails that. Lol.
• Indonesia
1 Nov 09
haha include the spam massages?? for what you read it all....
• American Samoa
31 Oct 09
i think i can receive more than a hundred messages every day, adn i read them all (^^,)
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
1 Nov 09
I will be more careful this time after my email account stopped working. It has 21,000 emails then it stopped working and many of those were unread emails. Now I have less than 100 emails and every day I delete emails that I don't wish to keep. I get many emails every single day.
• Philippines
2 Nov 09
Whoa? Really, what email account is that? Is it yahoo? Back then the inbox of yahoo was limited to I think 2gb? Now it's unlimited, but I'll start deleting those which are not important. Thanks for the advise.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
31 Oct 09
i used to have 4,000 messages. i erased them most of them now. i have only about 100 messages left. i just keep some old messages that are important to me and those email i want to have a copy of. most of my messages are basically from different websites i have signed to. i usually erase my messages after reading them. i just keep those important ones for a copy.
• Philippines
31 Oct 09
Very nice habit, I envy you for that. I usually don't read them because their titles shows what the content is like those I receive from facebook, friendster, and tagged, while surfing the net I'm already logged in to those sites so I don't bother myself to read them, but I'm also lazy to delete them. Lol
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
i don't read them. i just delete them. lol. they are not important messages anyways, i only read those that i want to read and i rarely read. most email that i read are from mylot to check responses and etc. but besides that i rarely read other emails.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
anyways , i find it fun to delete those messages. it was not that hard. as long as my internet connection it is easy to delete them. i hate when people see my inbox filled with lots of messages and none of them are really messages from some one i know or from any friends. i am not proud to have lots of messages since they are not personal messages.
@biman_s (1060)
• India
31 Oct 09
My email is also about that old and I receive about 150 messages everyday excluding the spam. But unlike you I go through them everyday as my email are arranged in a proper manner with each having its own folder. This helps me a lot as I deal with the most important ones first and then the ones that are coming from the social networking sites and other places. I think you seldom use your email or you are very lazy. Otherwise you wouldn't accumulate that many emails.
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
I open my email account almost everyday, I'm just too lazy. Lol
• Indonesia
1 Nov 09
lol............................
• China
1 Nov 09
aha, I have more than 3500 messages in my email account now, but I do not read them, I think they are unuseful,so I always delete them.haha,I only read the message of payment from other earning site.
• Philippines
2 Nov 09
At least you read them, in my condition laziness is my problem, but only to deleting emails that are not important.
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
I have a free email from yahoo and I think I received more than hundred emails from that email everyday. I do check them from time to time but most of them are spams. I do have a paid email from my website hosting services and usually I received around 20 to 30 emails a day. This are usually inquiries for my business. I do check them out and respond to them if necessary.
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
Whoa? You read them everyday? I think there are a lot here that are diligent and good at organizing. As for me, I'm lazy when it comes to this kind of stuffs. LOL
• Malaysia
2 Nov 09
Actually, I don't really count how many messages and some of them from the past few years are still there sitting in the inbox! Some I have not even read yet because most of them are forwarded emails from my friends and I just read the subjects. I intend to read it whenever I feel I have some time to read, but they end up being 'staled'!! Anyway, I will only delete those spam messages and the notifications or invitations from a few of the social networking sites. Sometimes, I would read the messages first before I delete.
@offlimits (596)
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
I currently have 330 messages in my Yahoo account, in which I have already deleted some emails. I tend to delete non-important emails right away because if I don't do so, I might not be able to retrieve my important emails. And in my case, it also becomes too stressful to look at. Haha. But I have a Gmail account which currently has 7918 emails, though. I don't really open that email account because of the junk mails. Haha. Take care! :)
@getbrowser (1708)
• China
1 Nov 09
About 500+ unread messages in my Gmail inbox. In most situations, I will choose to delete all the unread messages. For busy with my work, sometimes, I will leave the Internet for several days. And then when I go back, check my E-mail, the inbox is often full of large amounts of unread messages. You see, everyday, I can receive more than 60 messages from myLot, which is useful for me to post responses or comments and I will read these messages. But at the same time, there are so many spam E-mails here that I have to delete them without any hesitation. Of course, if there are full of spams and I can't take any measures to stop receiving such messages, then, I will switch to another E-mail.
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
Same here. Especially if you have a good discussion, there are a lot of emails regarding your post, comments, and responses.
@icecubic (1845)
• Indonesia
31 Oct 09
Owh, it's almost 1000 messages on my gmail account. Almost of it is comes from junk email from social networkin that have joined like facebook and twitter. Regularly i was delete unread or junk email per day. It can manages your email from programs that you have. Happy mylotting
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
I think I have about 30+ unread messages in gmail. Do you know what program I can use to arrange my messages? I want to separate those from my contacts and those from social networking sites. Thanks.
@beadguru (40)
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
I have around 2,000 unread messages. Not to include the messages from my folders I think I've got a thousand already. Most of my messages are from the sites which I am a registered member. Some are from my clients. I just don't have enough time to go over it all in a day that's why it piled up. I try to delete some most especially newer ones.
• Philippines
1 Nov 09
LOl. That's quite a lot, as for me I'm just lazy, and it's almost 5 years since I created that email and I was only a beginner then to the world of computers and internet, I just used it to register for online MMORPG games.
• United States
1 Nov 09
well i usually have well maintained email boxes but im ptetty sure thats only do to outlook and my blackberry they keep me organized with my many email accounts and can all be deleted and cleared out throughout my day
@kosta007 (36)
• China
1 Nov 09
I always clean them from my inbox,because I know they just want to make money from me,but I have no interest on buying any product or offer in email.That is what I did and what I thought of.Of course,if a headline is very attractable to me,I maybe view it and keep it in my inbox,so If I start a email marketing campaign in the future,a very attractable headline is key.
• Indonesia
1 Nov 09
same as you, so many spam massages in my email..usually i always check my email once a day...i did not read it, i delete it. because it's make the email hard to sign in.