Push-push
I tapped on a website, really just interested in some information about a certain topic. First pop-up? Enable push notification?
No, just no. Even from large conglomerate news sources, I don’t want push notification. There’s a cookie set, and an algorithm that chooses what I see, and that’s invasive enough.
There’s a secondary pop-up, another window I find annoying, “Join the conversation!”
That includes a form to fill in an e-mail address, a mailing list.
The frequency I like? No more than once a week. The frequency I provide? Once a week: weekly horoscopes. Simple. Easy. Non-invasive, just hit “reply” to get an answer, and adjust any other options.
Push-push
The argument is that e-mail is now redundant, overrun with spam, too hard to set-up, and just barely useful. Over the holidays, I watched as a family member, same complaints about e-mail, was inundated with text message, and it was easily going to the same way as the now-unmanageable e-mail.
This is the march of progress, and one point, we have to stop, assess where we are at, and then decide about our own future.
For the last year or two, I’ve left a message on my voicemail mail box, something like, “If you want to talk to me, send me an antique, archaic, anachronistic e-mail, so I have the phone number in my files, and we can set up a time.”
Push-push
I tend to not answer unsolicited phone calls.
