Comments on: Do you check email on vacation?

By: Larry Bodine

Larry Bodine — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:58:34 +0000

Do what I did: hire a virtual assistant for $25/hour to pre-read all your email. (This is good for the economy; I’m providing a job for a homebound woman in Illinois.) I forward all my email to her, and have trained her to run my listserv, online store, website and webinar site. She cleans out all the junk, handles what she can, and fowards MUST READ emails to my Gmail account. Everyone who sends me an email gets an out-of-office message, telling them where I am, what I am doing, and when I’ll be back.

Then I can go on vacation in peace.

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:32:56 +0000

My 5 year old nephew to my wife on the phone, “Say hi to Uncle John, is he on his Computer?”

By: JP

JP — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:43:08 +0000

I stay on email constantly even when on vacation. I’m looking for a 12 step program to get off of it. I don’t want my kid’s memory of me to be always looking down at my mobile whenever they turn around.

My question is how antiquated will this all look 5 years from now? Will messaging 3.X allow us to feel freer from our devices or even more dependent? I search the TED site for some visionary thoughts on that but have not come across yet. I read an essay about how Google views the future of mobile and how interconnected our GPS/Calendar/Messaging will be and how it will keep us on schedule…sounds like a nightmare/dream!

By: Adam M

Adam M — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:49:08 +0000

Actually I am guilty of it. When I went to Japan this year I checked my email everyday. Personal and work. Personal because I was meeting people and didn’t have a working cell in Japan. Work because I wanted to make sure nothing was crashing, sites weren’t messed up, and everyone had the correct permissions. I am sure the DEVers could have handled it but there is always that little guy in the back of your head asking you if everything is working correctly?

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:41:58 +0000

I think you need to totally unplug. A vacation means that you are getting away from it all. It means renewal and refreshment. That’s so hard to do when you are still plugged into the “Matrix.”