Just now - I suppose it happens every Monday about this time - I got an email from Tumblr that spotlights like five different Tumblr blogs. It says something like "The Five Blogs Of Your Future," or "Your Blog Cravings, Satisfied." I never read it, I just delete it. I mean, maybe I can unsubscribe from it if I open & read it? But naw. I just delete it.
My brain just asked me, what if your blog were on that list? The chances that the Self Help Radio Tumblr Blog would end up on a list like that are vanishingly small, what with its 29 followers who never like any of my photos. Maybe a Tumblr blog for a radio show shouldn't be putting up photos like it's a fucking Instagram account but anyway.
Or wait, what if it had been on that list previously, & anyone who saw it was like, "Oh shit, worst Tumblr blog ever"? That would be an appropriate response, but again, it's so very unlikely.
It's not just Tumblr notifications I delete. I delete stuff from Paypal, from charities I've given to (or the ones that I took surveys for that were designed to just get on their mailing lists), from newspapers I've created accounts for. I'm certain all those have unsubscribe buttons, & occasionally I do unsubscribe, but mostly I just delete without reading.
It's funny, I don't pay attention to those emails but I do like to read the emails from my spam mailbox. There's one spam I get regularly which says "subscribe from all our lists here." Maybe that's why I think it doesn't matter if I unsubscribe from any lists - it's all a scam.
But confidentially, I suspect the reason that I don't mind getting the emails is that I don't really get any emails anymore. It's nice to know my inbox is getting some action. It makes me feel bad for all those folks I never bothered to write back to twenty years ago or more. I thought I'd always have correspondents! What hubris!
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