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Exchanging Emails in Hostel
I have been exchanging emails with many people in the last few weeks, now that so many Hostels have free internet this has become easier.
However, people exchange emails and it means almost nothing, here is a funny technique I use to cull out the slackers.
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Fukuoka, Japan
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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A person wants to exchange emails, we walk over to a computer, I open my Yahoo mail account, I start to compose an email. I then ask them to type in their email so there are no mistakes, after they do so, I compose a letter or email something like this,
Subject: Andy from Seoul Backpackers Hostel
(or -- Their name, people need good subject lines or they just delete, their name is the only thing they know well.)
“Hello Person,
This is Andy we met in the Seoul Backpackers; please respond so I know this email works correctly.
Thanks
Andy
Too funny for words, only about 1 in 10 ever reply, so in a way there is little reason to exchange emails, I do so because the people who reply are genuinely good people, and sometimes what I thought was a good person and my friend is really a self-center lout.
The better friends are one who feels an obligation to reply to emails as good manners.
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- Mira said on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 10:57:00 PM
I have really started to hate that email thing. Usually, I generally do like the person if I give them my email and I do want them to write to me. It's weird though, that sometimes I will just receive a random email from someone like 10 months later. Yesterday I just got an e-mail from a guy who I met at that hostel in Guatemala. It was totally freakish. But on the other hand I know I do the same thing to people. Life is busy. We cannot all be internet bums...
- Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 11:18:00 PM
I think many traveler are caught inside Facebook and Myspace and all the other social networks and do not reply to people they actually met in real life.
- Mira said on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 12:31:00 AM
HAHa,They probably are. I do not have a facebook, and I sometimes feel like I am the only person in the world who doesnt. My classmates talk about facebook and sending things through facebook all the time. Our school use to communicate through e-mails, and now my school only has a facebook, and you can't even send out emails. I use to be really involved in the school, but now I can't be because i don't have facebook. It's absolutely ridiculous.
- Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 12:35:00 AM
I truly do not want to give permission to any social network to write me emails. I have youtube.com sending me tons and slowly I am trying to figure out how to stop them.When I am in Africa, each email becomes a chore to delete as the internet is so slow, I do not need fluff emails for any reason. I want real humans, ones I know to write me personal emails, not a social network.
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