Just noticed that post on our Simple Living cousin from Reddit and I was wondering if that was even an option to most of us?
Alas, the OP doesn’t share much context on why and how they did it, how they manage their daily activities without using any email.
I know I could not.
I mean, I can live without social networks (the only one I use being Lemmy, it was reddit before that) but I could not not use email.
I would even go as far as to say that removing email from my toolbox would make my life a more complicated and for what gain?
The OP mention not receiving spam. I don’t see much spam, simply because I use a spam filter. They also mention having better conversations than through email. Sure, I can understand that. But I can also have both without any issue. I never discussed much through email—save maybe in the early 90s, when I started really using email and quickly quit using snail mail in which, back then, people used to heave discussion that could go on for… years. With email I do things like create online accounts and stuff like that. I don’t exchange idea, I don’t even chat much. But while I do use email I can still discuss with people by other means.
Maybe email for me is a bit like the smartphone? I seldom use mine and only for practical purpose.
Like, there is no social, no games, no YT, not even… email is configured on my phone. It’s merely more than a phone (to pass and receive phone calls, I don’t message) with a big screen and the very few apps I’m expected to be able to get access to (passwords, 2FA, finances, IDs), and that’s it. But as limited as my use case is not using that phone would make things uselessly and much more complicated for me.
What about you? Can you imagine going email free?
Going email free would mean going internet free. Without email you cannot have online accounts. Right now practicing simple living includes doing my job for which I need internet and email.
Even in the future when I eventually retire I would still use internet for communication and playing games with the people I love and cannot see often.
So my version of simple life includes internet and email.
Agreed. If things were to drastically change (say we’re in a new global war and/or there is some major energy/climate crisis making online activities a luxury) I should be able to not use the Internet, but all things being equal I don’t think it would be reasonable to remove Internet (and the email) from my live and it would not make it simpler. Curious to see if other may go in the same direction as the OP on Reddit, though.