I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn’t send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I’ve ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying “DEAL DEAL DEAL” or whatever.
Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information… but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.
It’s obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.
- Who are you?
- Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
- What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?
I am probably in a unique situation and I probably shouldn’t have disregarded other people’s circumstances. Sales and customer relations jobs are probably at the top of the list as far as where email is very important. It is very much company size dependent as well. A “message queue” (email) is probably ideal for companies that work across multiple times zones.
However, for smaller companies like the ones I work for now (1000 people max, usually), Slack is perfect.
My gripes are probably more focused around the antiquated email protocol in combination with the company culture that evolved around email. That is more realistic, me thinks.