So I just finally got pushed over the edge. And I just need to vent a little. I donate fairly regularly to Democratic candidates. $50 here, $100 there. As a nurse, I'm hardly wealthy, but I've been careful with money, made a decent salary and have enough to spare some. And it seems like each donation I make puts me on a few more e-mail lists. I've never been all that bothered by it. I figured it didn't take that long to delete them. But lately the numbers have been multiplying. I counted up yesterday, and I got 78 political fundraising e-mails in one day. And, due to the fact that I keep an e-mail client open on my home computer and check e-mail regularly on my phone, most of them have to be deleted twice. Just the simple time to delete them had become a genuine burden. So today I had finally had enough and just started opening everyone I got and following the "unsubscribe" procedure. I'll still send money - When I choose to, not in response to apocalyptic begging. A particularly annoying note is that fully half of the e-mails I clicked through today came from a single source - the House Majority PAC. They support different candidates, but all come from the same place. So, one presumes, they know how many they are sending me. Can anyone possibly think that spamming me with that many emails is a productive thing to do? (Just me venting again.) I guess this must produce returns for them or they wouldn't keep doing it. But they reached the saturation point with me. I plan to keep on with my unsubscribing until the total number of unsolicited communications a day is down into single digits. I'll see if that's possible.
Update: I just have to say this is absolutely the last damn diary I every thought would make the rec list. I posted it and went to the store, came back to see if anyone noticed it at all. Hah! Guess I touched a nerve!