Thought you'd escaped Twitter? Think again as Twits get email button Just to make sure that anyone who's not on Twitter knows about Twitter, understands the coolness of Twitter and sees that everyone they know is on it and that they should be on it too, Twitter has introduced sharing by email. If one of the Twitterati sees a tweet they want to share with their Luddite unstreet friends, they can …
My e-mail is spam free due to careful use of company@mydomain.com e-mail addresses. Each company/online registration gets a unique e-mail alias on my domain and if they abuse it, they lose the privilege of emailing me.
My friends have my proper email address and this is how it's going to get "out there". Looks like friends may be getting the same treatment if that happens.
Looks like my free hmamail will be working overtime. Companies get given it as a contact address and unless the filter is set to auto-forward the mail gets deleted after 24hrs. When I have finished a transaction with a company I remove any auto-forward filter & their mail never troubles me again! Leaves me in control.
I will be truly pissed if I start getting emails from all and sundry just because someone who has my email address is a twat and uses twitter & decides he should send me a twatter from his twitter account.
"Tweeters are "Luddite unstreet friends".
Twitter! Bollox! It's rubbish, conceived for and used by the brain dead.
Facebook is for chavvy Jeremy Kyle wanna be's.
Prefect for 90% of british citizens then."
That, presumably, was a word from our style, education, literacy and mental stability correspondent. Tweets about bowel movements suddenly seem a lot more interesting in comparison.
However, I'm perfectly able to ignore them and still have friends even though they are on the social herding site while I'm not. When they ask me if I saw those photos they posted in FB, I reply "sorry but I can't because FB will not allow me to see them unless I open an account". You might be surprised but it works every time.
* By giving us any email, you give us authorization to spam the bajeezus out of that email, no matter what the owner of that email wants.
Twitter not responsible for lost friendships or bodily injury due to us spamming any email you give us.
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Makes me want to create a bunch of Sneakemail addresses, print them out on perforated paper, and keep in my billfold - "Oh, you want my email address? [rip] - here you go [/me scribbles their name on stub]."
1) Receive email spam from Twitterati
2) Get animal trap out of garage
3) Trap one of the local skunks
4) Do not feed skunk for 3 days
5) Throw about 20 jalapeno peppers laced with ExLax chocolate into trap with now-famished skunk
6) Drive in to San Francisco
7) Step into elevator at 1355 Market, press button for 9th floor
8) Liberally shake trap on the way up
9) Open trap and throw into 9th floor lobby .
10) Go home with a big smile on my face.
With the exception of the electronics in the car and elevator, I don't think I have used any technologies that are less than 40 years old!
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