Well, Since We're On the Topic of Annoying Email Pet Peeves...
I know there are about 12,003 too many emailing pet peeves to discuss, so let me address my current favorite.
You send a personal email to someone.
"Hey! How are you? Hope you are well!"
And they reply with one or more of the following:
1) Useless spam
2) Useless spam with bad jokes
3) An invitation to Facebook or one of those so you can "keep in touch."
Now, I have to say that I can be bad with answering emails sometimes, but if someone emails me, I do try to send them a personal response that DOES NOT include bad jokes about George Bush.
I know, they're so funny!!!!!!!
Whatever. How much does it take for you to say "I'm fine! Thanks for asking?"
So, go ahead. Get your email pet peeves out and then we'll get back to parenting. Like my new rule: Only one child may cry at a time.
My husband's family does not understand the concept of "Reply to Sender," so we all get every response to every group email ever. And since there are six siblings, they quickly add up. And they make me crazy.
Posted by: Bethiclaus | June 17, 2007 at 08:53 PM
DEAR GOD, PLEASE TURN OFF THE ALL CAPS BEFORE YOU SEND ME A FRIGGIN' E-MAIL.
I don't like to be yelled at either.
Posted by: Kim | June 15, 2007 at 06:12 PM
i don't like when people send emails with no capitalization or punctuation it's just one long run on sentence and they also run paragraphs of completely different subject together one after the other so you end up just reading on e long long long endless line of words that after awhile make no sense at all.
Posted by: Kristin | June 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Oh, yeah. I hit reply all.
I also send the emails where I will "die a horrible death if I don't forward to 20 people in 2 minutes" back to the person who sent it to me...20 times.
nobody sends those to me anymore ;P
Posted by: Syrrah | June 13, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Yes, hate the forwarded sob story/forward-to-everyone-so-they-believe-this-shit email. Call me a bitch, but when I get those I look them up on Snopes, then reply to the sender with the URL and a note, "Just thought you should know". (But that's it, the "FYI" and the URL, no chit-chat!)
I suppose if I really wanted to be a bitch I could hit 'Reply All' instead of just returning it to the person who sent it! (And I have seen that done!)
Anyway, back to enforcing the 'only one child whining at a time' rule around here........
Posted by: Jenni | June 12, 2007 at 12:30 PM
I hate when people send me stuff like that. I just got in touch with my cousin and that's all she's been sending me since. So annoying.
BTW: You live in phili? I'm across the river in haddonfield. :D
Posted by: Jenny | June 12, 2007 at 11:43 AM
I have two. one is that my mother actually considers SPAM to be correspondence. She will not send me a hand typed WORD for months, just fwd spam, and then get mad at me for not emailing her back. Arghhhh!
The second thing I hate even more than the first. When people forward anything without looking it up first. Its not a lost kid, its a hoax. Tampons aren't really made of crap, at least take the 20 seconds to look them up on Snopes first.
Posted by: Eryn | June 12, 2007 at 10:30 AM
I hate when a friend e-mails me and asks how I am, but then gives me an entire diatribe of what they've been up to.
Shouldn't I be asking that person how they are when I reply?
I usually send back a blurb that things are good with me and thanks for letting me know the 411 with them.
What else do I write that they haven't already?
Posted by: Dana | June 12, 2007 at 09:46 AM
I hate when my stepmother passes on bogus hoax e-mails and when I prove to her they're not true, she just gets defensive and mad.
Posted by: Damselfly | June 11, 2007 at 06:22 PM
I *hate* it when I get these really sappy, I love you because you're my bestest bestestestst friend in the whole wide world...
and they've sent it to 35 flucking people.
GEE, I FEEL SO SPECIAL NOW!!!
Posted by: Dawn | June 11, 2007 at 01:12 PM
I also hate all the forwards. Especially when the damn thing has been forwarded so many fricking times that you have to scroll for ten minutes just to get to the lame joke/picture of puppy/prayer portion of the email.
Posted by: Amy Jo Momma | June 11, 2007 at 09:38 AM
I despise the chain emails, especially the heart-wrenching My daughter has eye cancertumourgrowththirdnipple and is donating 0.0005 cents for every forward emailtrackingblahblahfuckingblah
BULLSHIT! STOP SENDING THEM TO ME!! Just hit delete people! DELETE!
Posted by: Amy | June 11, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Oh I hate those emails that tell you you have to forward the email to 10 friends or your hair will fall out and your toenails will turn yellow and thick. I don't forward them just to prove them wrong. My hair is very thick and my toenails are not yellow and thick, thank you very much.
Posted by: Heather | June 11, 2007 at 06:55 AM