Do you read everything that appears in your email? I primarily use Gmail. It divides all incoming emails into three divisions, Primary, Social, and Promotions. You can divide up your incoming emails into many more divisions as you want. I stick with the three stock divisions. Back to my question, I tend to read 99% of what comes into my primary division. The social division essentially tells me if there are new postings on Facebook. When I find something that I share on this blog, it is usually in the Promotion division. Gmail lets you view your emails into chunks of 50 at a time. On a typical weekday morning, I will get four or five chunks. It means I have somewhere between 200 and 250 emails in the Promotion division. With the upcoming spring, many seed companies and nurseries are promoting their various products now. From November until Christmas, the number of promotions skyrockets just as you would expect. If it’s a particularly busy morning, I’ll just I will delete all the Promotion division. If it’s not, I will scan through all of the Promotions and read those that seem interesting to me. Often they are more informing of what’s current in the world news than some news broadcasts. Right now the Covid 19 is generating many promotions.
There is one another division that’s not displayed, but you can click on it to see what is there. It is the spam folder. I have to thank Gmail for not showing any of what I find in the spam folder. I have an older laptop that I sometimes use just open stuff in the spam folder. There is a good reason that “stuff” is in the spam folder. They can really make a mess of your computer. I’ve had cases of ransomware. There’s nothing on that older laptop I have, but I have used it to look into the spam folder and click on items in it. I have had to reinstall the operating system for the computer to function again. It is something you definitely wouldn’t want to happen to a computer you are using. Others give you what looks like a legitimate website. However, it is collecting all the personal information you have stored on your computer like bank account information and credit card information and sending it back to whoever wrote the program. Others ask you blatantly for personal information for some sort of service like dating or computer cleaning programs. Occasionally, when I look into the spam folder, I will see something that shouldn’t be there that is easy to fix. My recommendation is never to click on anything in the spam folder. It is there for a good reason.
