Chain e-mails no mas!

We all remember that first year or two on the job after graduating from college. Most of us were on a computer in a large office performing a pretty insignificant task. Thank goodness we had e-mail. To cure the boredom we’d converse with 5-10 of our close friends via a common e-mail chain. We’d plan the upcoming Thursday night on the town, make fun of others’ hometowns (Philadelphia), and occasional test the boundaries of NSFW with bad language and funny youtube videos.

As years went by, these chain e-mails had less and less of a place in our inboxes. Coming back from lunch and finding 20 e-mails about who my buddy hooked up with over the weekend started to seem somewhat inappropriate. Getting fired as a result of vulgarity-laced e-mails from your college roommate was no longer viewed as relief from a crappy job, but a serious consequence.

One fateful day a few years ago my buddy came to us with the idea of replacing these inconvenient  e-mails with a blog. At the time we didn’t know what he was talking about, but went along for the ride. We made it private, created aliases from our favorite 80’s TV shows, and have been using it ever since. We still talk about people behind their backs, marvel at the bizarre crime that takes place in Philadelphia, and post videos with questionable language (ie. Bob Knight’s instructional golf video outtakes). Hilarious, but bad language!

So if your inbox is still getting pummeled with e-mail chains from your friends, I’d suggest following suite and setting up a blog together……..

~ by childsdo on September 15, 2008.