web 2.0 + email
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Is it just me or do so-called Web 2.0 sites spend an inordinate amount of time emailing you to say "hey! don't forget about us!"
I know that part of Web 2.0 is that feeling of being connected, of not having to think or worry about missing something. But I'm starting to feel that is, what is the phrase, "lipstick on a pig." It's still spam mail!
For example, I use Mint.com to do some financial analysis of spending habits and the like. Yet every time there's a fee (ATM Fee, Savings Transfer Fee, whatever), they send me an email "Oooh fees suck and you got hit with one!" They also send me weekly wrap-up emails and other emails letting me know certain things have cleared. They've also decided to email me when my credit cards (all two of them) are due, but I don't need that.
I'm certain there are ways to tell them to stop doing this in the settings. But then we roll back to the argument of opt-in vs. opt-out. Kind of annoying to have to figure out which buttons to tick to have it stop pissing emails at me every day.
Your thoughts? Are these Web 2.0 Wunderkind way too email happy?
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