Why do some families all share one email address?

[TravelingChris]

I am baffled why there are some families where everyone shares the same email address. If you have children you want to monitor, why not set it up that you get duplicate emails or just check their email account? Why would you want to share your spouse's email?

 

I guess that I am busy enough responding to my own emails that I have no need of reading my husband's science ones or his woodworking ones. I can always look at his and he can look at mine but neither of us do this except in very rare times like when someone is away from home and forgot to get some info from an email/

[Murphy101]

One less thing to mess with.

 

Dh has his own, though it's 50/50 ish whether he uses it.

 

Dc all use mine. They are rarely on the computer and most emails go straight to my iPhone.

 

Why do you care what email other people have?:001_huh:

[teachermom2834]

I know families that do this as a way of sharing everything/having everything out in the open, etc. I'm all for that but I think it can be done with separate accounts. I cannot imagine my dh reading all my emails with my friends and sister.

 

I have acquaintances that do this and I have to admit I don't like knowing who is reading my email. Sometimes I'm just sending along a cooking tip or homeschooling find. It's nothing I'd want to hide from the husband but it is not something I really want to address to him, either. I have a friend that does this on FB and the way that is set up I don't know who I am really communicating with.

 

Setting up another email account if you want to be sneaky is so easy that this seems pointless to me. BUT, to each their own! Marriage is tough and if this makes a couple feel closer than good for them. Not for us, though.

 

Marie

[Jackie in AR]

Dh and I have one email account at home. (Our kids each have their own.) Dh is on the computer a lot during his work day, so he rarely gets on it when he comes home. If we had separate accounts, his would never get checked. (He's been back on Facebook only once or twice since our dd set him up an account over a year ago.)

 

I've got the same question as Martha - why does this bother you?

[DarlaS]

She said she was baffled--not bothered.

 

I don't get it either. I have nothing to hide, but my e-mail is my own--kind of like my purse. :D I actually have two accounts for various purposes. I have enough of my own stuff (groups etc--many of which I largely ignore most days but still enjoy being on) to filter and dh has his account at yahoo.

 

Both my eldest two sons have their own account also. It seems to be the handiest way to send files back and forth. The 13 year old needs to be reminded to check his. I actually have his password as I am the one who set it up. I'm the only one who e-mails him so far.

[sewpeaceful]

Dh and I have one email account at home. (Our kids each have their own.) Dh is on the computer a lot during his work day, so he rarely gets on it when he comes home. If we had separate accounts, his would never get checked. (He's been back on Facebook only once or twice since our dd set him up an account over a year ago.)

 

I've got the same question as Martha - why does this bother you?

 

 

Same situation with us. We used to have separate accounts but when my dh had to start applying for a new job after NASA's announcement, I had to monitor 2 accounts because of people contacting him for interviews and such. When we knew we would be moving without a job lined up (house sold faster than expected), we lost our ISP and consolidated to 1 account for both of us on gmail that we can access from anywhere and it has worked out great. If something comes in for him personally that is important, I tell him and he reads it when he gets home or I bump it to him at work.

[Aunty Social]

It's funny. I remember finding out a couple years ago that most families had separate email accounts for everyone and wondering why. It made no sense to me.

 

For us it's just more expedient. My dh likes me to read some of his emails so that I know what is going on with his activities and can keep up with his schedules, and vice versa. Also, I will quite often have to have input on a scheduling question, or print out information for him, and it's just easier to do from one account. We don't read anything that looks like it may be private, or doesn't relate to the shared responsibilities of our lives.

 

We also have separate email accounts. They are mainly for things like facebook, twitter, and blogging...but it really doesn't matter, because we each know the user names and passwords.

 

My oldest dd has her own email - again we have the access information, and she knows we hold the right to check it whenever we want (although we rarely do). She seldom uses it anyway...it's all about texting in this day and age.;)

 

We are one of the more unusual families in our geographic area though. We do most things as a family - even just getting groceries or the dry cleaning. People are continually shocked that I help my dh with his activities and that he helps me with mine, or that we will all attend some event.:001_huh:

[Murphy101]

Who says they read each others emails? Subject lines and sender lines are there for a reason. I open what is sent to me.

 

Dh has his business email addy, which goes direct to his iPhone and home, which we share.

 

Kids have their own email addy, but as they don't have their own computer or iPhones, they almost never use it.and if I'm going to have all their email copied to me, why bother with a separate email acct?

 

Frankly, this is just how we are. Whoever checks the mail, be it email or snail mail, opens it and disperses it. When it comes to snail mail, we don't even look at the front of the envelope to see who it is addressed to most of the time. More than once I've opened my neighbors mail or previous owners mail.

 

It's not at all about checking up on each other or whatever lack of trust.

 

None of us care. Honestly if you sent an email or letter saying something you didn't want the others to know, that would pretty much guarantee you would make it to the top of dinner conversation no matter who read it first.:tongue_smilie:

[Granny_Weatherwax]

We have one because I am the one on the computer most of the time. It is easier for me to handle the calendar schedule with 4H, Boy scouts, cheerleading and tennis if the email comes to me and not to each of the kids. I also do the banking for our family so all of the online notices come to me.

 

I can't imagine trying to keep track of the family's business if each person had separate email accounts. I don't want to spend time asking the kids (and DH) to check their email, forward me any important notices and let me know what is going on.

 

As far as personal email are concerned: My DD has her own account but it is mostly for her social stuff, almost all of her 'business' email comes to the home account. I have found that most teens no longer send email anyway - it's all about texting. DS is young enough that it is rare for him to receive email. If he does receive a message I usually can tell by the subject line or the email address. I don't open those and let him know he has mail so he can read it at his leisure.

[Rebecca VA]

I really like seeing the e-mails that come in. I don't read the ones that don't interest me, but sometimes e-mails that aren't sent directly to me affect me in some way or other (for example, notices about upcoming events).

 

My son does have his own e-mail account, but he didn't get it until he was about 16.

 

My daughter got an account about a year ago, but she was misusing it (sending out spam and silly e-mails to friends), so we disabled it.

 

I'm pretty quick about deleting e-mails we don't need or want, so our inbox stays pretty clear.

[sunflowerlady]

Because we have no need for seperate accounts.:001_huh: Dh has practically no interest in the computer at all and doesn't really get any email. Dd is a child of 11 and doesn't really get email. That leaves me. :) Any email we get can come to one account and be read by the intended recipient.

[teachermom2834]

Who says they read each others emails? Subject lines and sender lines are there for a reason. I open what is sent to me.

 

Because sometimes I get a response from the dh about something I never would have sent to him. Or I have an exchange where it takes a few messages to realize that I'm corresponding with the dh, not the girlfriend I thought I was.

 

To each their own. It doesn't bother me a whole lot but I do hesitate to use that form of communication with a woman if I don't really know the dh. I didn't really want to email the dh. I just have to pick up the phone then.

 

Also, it would drive me nuts if my dh answered my emails. I don't think he would but it would bug me to have dh responding to my friends and relatives who meant to correspond with me.

 

It doesn't sound like any of you have dhs that are answering your emails, though. It sounds like you're just directing mail where it needs to go. I totally see the need for that. For all of our kids activities we are both included on the email list so that we both get the messages. It would be hard if schedule updates and info were going to dh's account and I wasn't getting them.

[BlsdMama]

That's so funny. Because, I think, why bother to maintain & check all those different email accounts when you can just simplify life with one? :confused:

[Guest CarolineUK]

As strange as it may sound to some people, none of us actually uses e-mail that much. DH has e-mail at work, but at home we just have the one address for all of us. There's nothing I send to anyone, or anyone sends to me that I wouldn't want DH to read (I can't imagine he'd want to). Sometimes I reply to e-mails for him as he's often away and if something comes through that needs dealing with then it's best it gets done. I don't think any of our children have ever received an e-mail! Are we living in the dark ages?!

[Jen in PA]

DH and I have only known each other for 11 years, so we obviously had separate email accounts before that. It never would have occurred to me to drop my account or to ask him to drop his. We actually both have multiple accounts, and dd got her own email when she turned 6 (although she doesn't know the password -- I have to sign her in so I can peruse her inbox for safety reasons). I suppose sharing an account might work for a family that didn't get much email or where not all members had regular computer access, but it just wouldn't make any sense for us.

[elegantlion]

It would take a flow chart and maybe a powerpoint presentation:tongue_smilie: to keep track of all the e-mail addresses we have in our household. Dh and I have never shared space well, even cyberspace. We've always had separate desks (he's the neat one), separate computers, and now we have separate office space in the house.

 

Personally I don't want to wade through his e-mails on computer gadgets, his yahoo groups, and other stuff. I'm certain he has no desire to read my yahoo groups and various other stuff that finds it way to my inbox. Ds even has his own e-mail that he rarely checks. Dh checks most of his e-mail on his phone anyway.

 

For us multiple addresses are convenience.

[mommaduck]

I've known families that have done this because either 1) the husband is very controlling of all communication or 2) the husband, or someone else in the house, has an issue with pornography (I've known of women that have had to lock down and put monitoring programs on their computers because of their husbands).

 

I have several accounts, each used for something categorically different. My husband and older children each have their own accounts.

[Murphy101]

Because sometimes I get a response from the dh about something I never would have sent to him. Or I have an exchange where it takes a few messages to realize that I'm corresponding with the dh, not the girlfriend I thought I was.

 

Also, it would drive me nuts if my dh answered my emails. I don't think he would but it would bug me to have dh responding to my friends and relatives who meant to correspond with me.

 

It doesn't sound like any of you have dhs that are answering your emails.

 

My dh and I do that all the time. We always know about it though and don't mind and we always sign it with our name so they know who resounded.

[ThatCyndiGirl]

Who says they read each others emails? Subject lines and sender lines are there for a reason. I open what is sent to me.

 

Because sometimes I get a response from the dh about something I never would have sent to him. Or I have an exchange where it takes a few messages to realize that I'm corresponding with the dh, not the girlfriend I thought I was.

 

To each their own. It doesn't bother me a whole lot but I do hesitate to use that form of communication with a woman if I don't really know the dh. I didn't really want to email the dh. I just have to pick up the phone then.

 

 

 

When I discover that this is going on it is my cue to never use email to communicate with the female friend by email. To me it seems kinda' creepy to email HER and get a response from HIM. If I were at their house IRL I wouldn't speak directly to HIM while she was in the room, kwim? (excluding her, I mean. Clear as mud?) It seems odd......if he knew you were addressing the email/query, etc. to HER and HE responds......weird and intrusive, imo.

 

ETA: Okay, maybe that was not clear. If she and I were sitting in her living room and I directed a question to HER and he jumped in and answered.....that is what emailing HER and getting a response from HIM would feel like. More clear?

[Crissy]

I know a couple of families who share an email address, and I get the impression that all or some of the family members don't use the computer very often.

One in particular tells me she wouldn't even think about email if her husband didn't occasionally say, "Honey, you have an message from So-and-So."

Why have mulitiple accounts if even one is rarely used?

[Joker]

We only use one account. I am really the only one that uses email. My dds actually prefer to use the phone or write actual letters. Dh doesn't even want to be on the computer when he gets home from work. If someone sends an email to dh or dds I tell them and they can read/respond. E-mail is just really not a big thing used here.

[Murphy101]

When I discover that this is going on it is my cue to never use email to communicate with the female friend by email. To me it seems kinda' creepy to email HER and get a response from HIM. If I were at their house IRL I wouldn't speak directly to HIM while she was in the room, kwim? (excluding her, I mean. Clear as mud?) It seems odd......if he knew you were addressing the email/query, etc. to HER and HE responds......weird and intrusive, imo.

 

ETA: Okay, maybe that was not clear. If she and I were sitting in her living room and I directed a question to HER and he jumped in and answered.....that is what emailing HER and getting a response from HIM would feel like. More clear?

 

Hmmm, maybe it deoends in how well you know her?

 

Dh is not doing anything I'm unaware of if he respond to an email intended for me. Most of the time it is because my hands are full and he and I are chatting about it as he responds for me. And he always says he is doing it, because it would be weird to not know who you are actually communicating with!

 

I've only known a few oppressed women whose dh's did this because of control issues and I've only known a few women who do it bc they don't feel they can trust their husband.

 

I know even fewer that I continue a friendship with in this situations. The situations itself is weird and unhealthy and it's very difficult to maintain a friendship with someone like that when you are not also like that. They tend to think you should do the same and we just don't.

[Ottakee]

I have had it where I will email a friend and her 11 year old daughter reads the email (NOT intended for her) and then never tells mom about the email so when mom checks the email it doesn't show up as a new unread message and mom doesn't read it.

 

I never send anything inappropriate but then again, I might have a comment/question for the mom that isn't the child's business yet email is the easiest form of communication.

 

My daughter has her own email but I do request that any 4H announcements or youth group stuff also come to my email so it isn't lost or forgotten.

 

I would be very hesitant to email a friend if I knew it was her husband doing the reading/responding and not her. Again, nothing is written that needs to be kept private from her husband but I just don't make it a habit of communicating with my friend's husbands without the friend being there or my husband being there.

[JFSinIL]

we all have the same - BUT we also have our own folders at yahoo mail, and it is easy for me to put everyone's mail in their folder. I can tell who get what mail easy enough - anything from the beer club or Cubs or law stuff obviously goes to hubby, etc. THEN I read my mail.

[AngieW in Texas]

My dh and I shared an email for a long time, but that was before we were on any email loops and hardly anybody kept in touch by email. We shared the email that was set up for us by our dial-up internet provider. After about two years, I had signed up for email loops and we needed separate email accounts so that neither of us had to sort through the other's email.

[Oak Knoll Mom]

One less thing to mess with.

 

Dh has his own, though it's 50/50 ish whether he uses it.

 

Dc all use mine. They are rarely on the computer and most emails go straight to my iPhone.

 

Why do you care what email other people have?:001_huh:

 

I care because I have one friend who frequently doesn't get my emails (important info related to our co-op) because she and her husband share an account. :001_smile:

[Gwenhwyfar]

dh and i have separate emails, always have. i'd never want to share - there are things that i discuss with girlfriends that i don't want him "overhearing", for one thing. i like my privacy. :)

[LaissezFaire]

I have no idea why people would have all one. We have many.

[Murphy101]

I care because I have one friend who frequently doesn't get my emails (important info related to our co-op) because she and her husband share an account. :001_smile:

 

oh. Well that doesn't happen here. I'd be really mad if dh was filtering my stuff without telling me!:glare:

 

 

dh and i have separate emails, always have. i'd never want to share - there are things that i discuss with girlfriends that i don't want him "overhearing", for one thing. i like my privacy. :)

 

See now, I tell my dh everything. I sit here reading emails and boards and yammering away at dh about what I'm reading all the time.

 

Also, a separate email wouldn't really matter. I have a huge monitor across the room from me and use a wireless keyboard at the table, so whatever I read is basically being broadcast to the house anyways. Oddly enough, it still annoys the dickens out of me to have someone standing over me while I type though. 90% of the time, I use my iPad or iPhone, but no one sending me email has anyway of knowing that.

[Daisy]

We only have one family email address. But I'm really the only one who checks it. I let hubby know when he has an email he needs to read (from his Mom usually). He has a work email at his school site for all that junk but he never uses it for personal correspondence. He isn't big into email and prefers to just call his parents.

 

The kids don't want one.

 

So really why bother setting up separate accounts that will never get used?

 

We do have separate FB accounts now, but even then, I have to remind him to check it. :lol:

[HappyCrazyMama]

Well my husband doesn't really doesn't do computers or email, I can count on one hand how many emails he gets in a month. We he gets one I tell him. My older teens have do one of their own, not sure when they started maybe around 15 or so. We would never reply to an email meant for someone else, that seems rude. It doesn't bother me to have only one email though, I'm the one that is always at the computer. :tongue_smilie: Also we don't often use email for personal correspondence. No one really has a conversation with friends via email in our home. Every couple months dh might send fil an email but mostly our email consists of order information (I shop online a lot), FB notices, and other misc. notices 4H meeting, hs coop meeting, Paperbackswap :D, etc. We probably receive less than 10 emails a day. :)

Edited September 27, 2010 by Happyhomemama
noticed a typo

[nono]

We have a family email account for when folks want to send something to all of us. I like having the family account. It makes it easy for our friends to contact us as a family, with one address.

 

I also have a personal email account (or 6) as does my dh.

[Crissy]

Dh is not doing anything I'm unaware of if he respond to an email intended for me. Most of the time it is because my hands are full and he and I are chatting about it as he responds for me.

 

We all have separate email accounts, and we still do this sort of thing for each other. If my account is open at the kitchen laptop when my husband sits down he might say, "So-and-So wants to know if you will be sending a proof before the end of the week."

I'll tell him what I have planned for the project and ask him to reply for me.

 

I do the same for him. If I see a new message in his account that says, for example, that his buddy wants to stop by to borrow a camera or a lens I'll read it to him and he will ask me to respond on his behalf.

 

We function similarly with our text messages. If one of my boys hears my phone's text tone when I'm busy they know I'd rather have them read the message and tell me what it says than leave the phone on the counter and say, "You got a text."

[Gwenhwyfar]

dh and i have separate emails, always have. i'd never want to share - there are things that i discuss with girl friends that i don't want him "overhearing", for one thing. i like my privacy.

 

See now, I tell my dh everything. I sit here reading emails and boards and yammering away at dh about what I'm reading all the time.

 

 

 

yeah see - our relationship doesn't work like that. dh is not usually interested in conversations. :laugh:

[Abigail4476]

We have separate emails from one another and from our kids. We have our kids passwords so we can supervise, and they're only allowed to email people we've added to their address box. My husband and I also share passwords with each other for our computers and accounts, so nothing is hidden; it's just separate and organized.

 

My husband has a home business, so there is NO WAY I would want to get all of his emails from that--I wouldn't even be able to find mine.

 

I have conversations with friends and family that I wouldn't want my children reading, so sharing an email account with them wouldn't work for me. They aren't (and shouldn't be) privy to every adult conversation. :tongue_smilie:

[cathmom]

I've known families that have done this because either 1) the husband is very controlling of all communication or 2) the husband, or someone else in the house, has an issue with pornography (I've known of women that have had to lock down and put monitoring programs on their computers because of their husbands).

 

 

 

I can assure you that neither is the case here! We have one email at home, but it's basically mine. My children still at home do not use email. Occasionally they get an email from family or friends and I tell them. Dh can look at it any time he wants, but he usually just uses his work email.

[6packofun]

I care because for a long time some women I know shared an email address with their husband--it was the only one they had and in 1 or 2 cases they were only "allowed" to have a shared one!--and I didn't like the idea of hubbies reading my emails, too. It creeped me out a bit.

[lllll]

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[TheCoffeeChick]

We have one that is shared and it is the one that gets used the most. If we didn't share, dh would have no clue when someone emailed him. I always tell him when he gets an email. And yes I read it and sometimes I even answer for him when he is too busy, I just tell him what I said for him. He doesn't want to be bothered with small things, so I do it for him.

 

We also have one that is for junk. You know, all those websites that make you sign up for something but then send you a bunch of junk mail. We have a separate email for this sort of thing that we maybe check once a month.

 

I have one for homeschool related things, like signing up for a teacher discount. I also have one that I use for join yahoo groups that I don't use for email.

 

Dh has one for his blogging that he doesn't check very often. And he also has one connected with the college he attends that I check for him because I do all the financial & paperwork type things. I just print out anything that needs his attention.

 

The kids are too young for one yet, but if they wanted one I'd let them get their own that we could monitor.

[creekland]

Until this thread I was seriously baffled as to why individuals in a family would want their own. ;)

 

In our family we have one as it's simply easier to check. Hubby has a separate file within our e-mail that he moves all his work related ones to, but that's about it. There's never anything secret about our e-mails! If I want closer contact, I use the phone.

 

The boys each got their own when they signed up for chess.com and collegeboard.com, so they can keep track of their stuff on there, but for anything important, it better come to our family e-mail or it's going to get lost.

[ChristusG]

I didn't read all the responses, but it bugs when when families share an email address. I never send along bad things, but there are some things....if I am talking about an issue or needing advice....that I really don't want kids to be reading, or the woman's DH. If she wants to share the issue with her DH, that's fine, but I just don't want him randomly opening my email to her.

[choirfarm]

I didn't read all the responses, but it bugs when when families share an email address. I never send along bad things, but there are some things....if I am talking about an issue or needing advice....that I really don't want kids to be reading, or the woman's DH. If she wants to share the issue with her DH, that's fine, but I just don't want him randomly opening my email to her.

 

Ok, that is the kind of thing you should do in a phone call, not an e-mail. Honestly, we have one account. None of my chidren have one (Why on earth would they need one!!!! They are 15, 13 and 8) I'm not sure who would even send my child one. It never even occured to me to have separate ones.. well, except I do have a choirfarm one that is just for signing up for boards like this one on...i don't use it much. It isn't my REALl one if that makes sense. The REAL one is the one I share with dh...I'm not sure what he would be getting that he wouldn't want me to read either: just bills, church newsletters and such. To be honest, I don't get any "personal" e-mail except those very occasional ones from in-laws or my mom. Grin...I don't do facebook either!

 

Christine

[Crissy]

I didn't read all the responses, but it bugs when when families share an email address. I never send along bad things, but there are some things....if I am talking about an issue or needing advice....that I really don't want kids to be reading, or the woman's DH. If she wants to share the issue with her DH, that's fine, but I just don't want him randomly opening my email to her.

 

Isn't that sort of thing always a risk when you put your issue in writing? Whether it's an email or a hand written letter, there is always a chance that one family is more open about their correspondence than you.

An email message addressed to one person but available on the family computer is not terribly different than a regular letter addressed to one person sittting on the kitchen counter. Anyone in the house *could* read it.

[tristangrace]

that is the kind of thing you should do in a phone call, not an e-mail

Why "should" one ask for advice on the phone instead of in writing? I find I'm much more articulate in writing than I am in speaking. It helps greatly to organize my thoughts.

 

 

An email message addressed to one person but available on the family computer is not terribly different than a regular letter addressed to one person sittting on the kitchen counter. Anyone in the house *could* read it.

 

Isn't it more like sending a letter to person C in an envelope addressed to A, B, and C?

 

I don't have a super-strong opinion on the subject, but it IS annoying when I send a time-sensitive e-mail to, oh, say, my sister-in-law and she doesn't respond because my brother opened it and forgot to mark it "unread."

[Murphy101]

I don't have a super-strong opinion on the subject, but it IS annoying when I send a time-sensitive e-mail to, oh, say, my sister-in-law and she doesn't respond because my brother opened it and forgot to mark it "unread."

 

If it is time sensitive info, then you should call.

 

At the very least you should call to say to look for the email.

 

If you were sending time sensitive snail mail, I would think you would want the person to know to be looking for it. Otherwise how do they know it didn't arrive?

[Crissy]

Isn't it more like sending a letter to person C in an envelope addressed to A, B, and C?

 

 

 

I don't think so. A snail-mail letter is delivered to a house in which several people may live in the same way an email is delivered to an account that several people may use.

The recipient listed on the envelope would be similar to the subject line or the greeting of the email.

At least I assume if someone wants an email to go directly to one person at an address such as TheJonesFamily AT EmailProvider.com (or any address that they know the whole family uses), they would specify such a thing in the subject line.

My parents share an email address through my dad's name. My dad is usually the one to check the inbox, so if I want to send something to my mom I always put "For Mom" in the subject line.

 

ETA: My point really isn't about how one addresses their notes, but that with any written correspondence one always runs the risk that someone else may read it.

Edited September 27, 2010 by Crissy

[orangearrow]

DH has an email address, but he hardly ever looks at it. So, we always tell anyone that "If you need DH to respond to something in a timely manner - you'd better use MY email address!" lol He's just not a computer person. He checks his facebook account maybe every 2-3 weeks - once.

 

Kids do not have an email address. There just hasn't been a reason for it yet. Their IRL friends - they can call on the phone, or talk to them the 2-3 times a week they see them. No need to type to them, lol. When they DO need an email account, they'll have their own. I don't want to wade through more stuff than I already am juggling in my email account.

 

Now - *I* - have 3 or 4 active email accounts that I use regularly. They each have a purpose, and I don't want to merge the accounts. It helps me keep things sorted and organized. :)

[TravelingChris]

I find it strange and I know it slows down communication. Let me give you some examples. We are involved in a co-op that meets in person but the organizing and announcements are all down by emails. We are also involved in other groups where again the announcements are done by email- this includes speech and debate clubs, 4H, Odyssey of the Mind, soccer, and swim and dive. No, the announcements aren't normally private (although some are not supposed to be shown to children like when we are trying to organize an event and set up partners or a team and want to be honest about possible pairings or groups) but it also means there are a lot of them. It hampers communication. Last year, my odyssey team had four girls with their own email and one without. Guess whose input was usually missing and had to catch up at meetings? I can't even see how you would end up doing a project with someone who has to get emails screened or forwarded.

 

In our case, everyone has diverse interests that no one else cares about. So dd17 gets emails about prep for meetings and rehearsals she attends along with tons of college mail and also some emails regarding issues she is concerned about or hobbies she has. DD13 gets emails from friends and some relating to her activities. DH gets emails from his friends (usually forwarded things that he actually likes), ads from places he shops at, and emails regarding his hobbies. He gets his work emails on a separate account. I get emails relating to homeschooling, gardening, a few different diseases or conditions, plus all the activities we are active in. I get the most emails per day (over 100). I don't need to add anyone else's emails to mine.

[creekland]

Grin...I don't do facebook either!

 

Christine

 

We don't either - you and I are very alike.

 

And for those that think snail mail is any different... at our house, whoever gets the mail (adults) tends to open it - unless it's an obvious bill, then it's my dept. If it's obviously hubby's work related, then I put it in a pile for him.

 

The only mail our boys ever opened were their birthday/Christmas cards and college acceptance letters - well, college mail in general (for my oldest who's a freshman and my middle son who's a junior).

[Sebastian (a lady)]

With dh being here there and everywhere, important info would stand a good chance of getting lost if we weren't monitoring it from both ends.

 

For us it's not a matter of having only one email. It's a matter of not splitting our main one. I have a web email. DH has a web email and a work email. I also have one I monitor for scouts.

 

We just don't need still one more.

 

Different families have different comfort levels with email. I'm always struck by how an email sender assumes that others read and answer email the same way they do. If emailing your coop friend isn't effective, then use a different method.