Thursday, August 10, 2006

Email hoarders versus deleters

Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about how the way you handle your email inbox is a reflection on your personality.

 

"If you keep your inbox full rather than empty, it may mean you keep your life cluttered in other ways," says psychologist Dave Greenfield, who founded the Center for Internet Behavior in West Hartford, Conn. "Do you cling to the past? Do you have a lot of unfinished business in your life?"

 

I wonder what Greenfield would say if I were to tell him that I spent the last hours at my internship last week backing up my Outlook mailbox so I could take with me every email I have ever received or sent during the entire internship experience?

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