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Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I still cringe at the memory of the one time I forwarded one -- it was something about Bill Gates, but I can't remember the details. Anyway, my uncle replied back to me with something wholesome like

Nice to hear from you [mad_lentil], although I doubt this offer is genuine, you never know! Maybe we'll all be rich this time next year. Say hi to your mom and dad for me, thanks.

It had never occurred to me that someone would lie on the internet rofffflllll. I was SO humiliated.

For me the worst was the slideshow fad... So many people were making some and constantly sending them to ALL their contacts and forwarding those of other people making them and you kept receiving some of people who knew someone who knew someone you knew because of the forwarding... Since the last step came from people you knew, you couldn't just block them, and if you didn't answer every once in a while it was terribly rude... Also those butt ugly sparkling greeting cards 😬

Now spam is so common that it's a perfect excuse, I just warn people that I don't read email so don't bother sending them 😂

But I agree on principle, the annoyances used to come from people who were over-enthusiastic over new technology like email, photo editing and such, and wanted to share it with everyone (willing or no). Or people who were having fun with chain emails (I might possibly have started a few on my school local network so I do understand... but to be fair no one used that network and its email system for anything else but email chains 😂 ). Now it's all automated slop.

In my country we have something called BankID. BankID, it's Sweden's leading electronic identification system, widely used for banking, e-government services, and secure logins. So I use it to login to the bank, check my taxes, hospital status, bookings etc. Basically the message itself is already on their website and never leaves them.

Subscriptions? We have RSS.

Buying something? Login to the website and see your order.

Delivery of something you bought and want to see when the packet arrives? You have an smartphone app for that. Like login to company app and view. You even get push notifications.

And for those people who actually get a message from a person instead of a company. You have chat, like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord etc. You even can have voice and video conference with the other person. Chat is instant messaging and is not slow compared to email.

Account registration? Make use of OpenID. Or even better passkeys.

Bonus: In my country we have Kivra - government post. Any company can get it and send the normal letter in a digital format - basically the none printed version of the letter so a PDF.

Carrier pigeons. At least you get a bird to pet when receiving spam.

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By beaming them straight into your brain chip, silly!

I don't want to fall for ads. I use price comparison webpages and can there monitor for specific items and priceranges.

Alternative you can often view their ad campaign on their website and in PDF format.

There are special smartphone apps that just collect ADs. Basically the provider put their PDF there. Just subscribe there to what you want.

Some people even prefer the paper version.

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