What To Do About No Replies?

A site visitor inquires about a topic we all may deal with during the upcoming Holiday season: Love your site, Judith! How do you recommend that I deal with friends and family that I email and they don’t always respond? I always take the time to respond to those who email me. [...]

E-mail Etiquette Requires Your Reply

A site visitor writes: My brother-in-law never acknowledges messages that I send to him unless I ask him a direct question…and, even then, he sometimes fails to respond…so I have no way of knowing when, or if, he’s received my message…or what he thinks about it. What’s the etiquette here? The proper etiquette is to have [...]

Why Don’t People Reply to E-mails?

At least a couple requests come in each day inquiring about what a person is to think when they don’t get a reply to their e-mails. The natural inclination being “they don’t want to hear from me” or “they are ignoring me.” To which I respond that I do [...]

E-mail Response Expectations are Officially Unrealistic!

In a little over a decade we can’t live without our e-mail. And to think a mere 15 years ago when I was all excited about CompuServe and opened my little Internet Studio on the IL/WI border, everyone thought I was nuts! Fast forward to now and we want it now! E-mail should be [...]

Some Emailers Simply Don’t Care…

I thought I would share with you an email I received from a site visitor in regard to my Email Etiquette Quiz: Site Visitor: “In your Netiquette Quiz; QUESTION: 9 in regard to how quickly I should respond to emails you say the correct answer was A: ‘As soon as I can; no longer than [...]

Is E-mail Too Easy?

A concerned site visitor comments: “Do we overuse e-mail as a communication medium? In many instances, e-mail is the “easy approach” but not necessarily the best approach.” Yes we are. Many have chosen to take the lazy, easy way out and not pick up the old fashioned telephone or have an in-person meeting when that [...]

Meeting Friend’s Expectations

Do you have friends who expect you to respond to their e-mails in seconds? Or how about being available at all times for IM chats? Then, when you explain why you didn’t respond or were not available to chat — hurt feelings come into play. Why feel bad or become embarrassed simply because one [...]

Old Flame & E-mail Etiquette

A concerned site visitor writes: To make a long story short, an old boyfriend found me on the Internet. He is married but not happily (so he says), I am widowed. He arranged for me to meet him at a resort, paying for everything including my airfare. Now for 2 weeks I have [...]

E-mail Perception: I’m Being Ignored!

I’ve receive e-mails like the one below almost daily: I have a friend that doesn’t reply to my e-mails. When I talk to her later, she comments she did receive them but was busy and didn’t have time to reply. I then get the impression she may not actually have read them because when [...]