Feverish ramblings about email

I've had fever/flu since Thursday, so I completely forgot my blogging turn yesterday. Anyway, I'll just post this now and hopefully the fever is gone next saturday.

In the lecture and materials there was much talk about email and how people use it. This got me to think about when I first started using email. I remember that in elementary school we all had to create our own email address to some finnish service that provided free email addresses at that time. We didn't really have any use to them and I remember sending maybe three emails across the room to some friends.

Later I remember using luukku.com, mostly to order something from the internet. When GMail came, I started using it and it soon replaced luukku as my main email. Luukku still remained as secondary email for suspicious sites I had to give my email address to, but nowdays I don't even remember the password anymore. In the university I of course got uta-email.

Interesting thing I realized when I thought about my email usage, is that I don't remember ever using it to any kind of personal communication. Emails I send are always related to studies or other official things. If I have something to say to a friend, I give them a call or send sms, never email.