Mass Email Season

One of the advantages of having the same email address for 6 years has been that people who I haven’t talked to in ages can still get a hold of me. Case in point, Brian sends word from Madison that the Senate is voting on the Federal Marriage Amendment (he’s against it).

There must have been something in the air last month because I got a whole slew of mass emails from a bunch of people I haven’t talked to in ages. It’s summer, right? People having too much time on their hands? So I’ve had the same email address, and it’s been passed around. I suppose that’s life on the internet—getting random emails from acquaintances I knew years ago. I suppose it’s good to feel connected, but this kind of thing takes effort if you want it to work. Mass emails can seem like an intrusion; I noticed that several people sending them were self-conscious about it, which didn’t used to be the case. People used to send mass emails more indiscriminately. But dare I say it, I’d rather have these old acquaintances send email more frequently because I find it interesting to hear about people’s lives, and cramming the past two or three years into one email, one loses a lot of the granularity of more frequent missives.