Exactly how I felt reading that 
Are you also the ‘you didn’t text me/I didn’t get a text from you’ person? My mom will call me because “I didn’t reply” to her text and then when we meet in person I see all my unread messages on her phone.
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We could not be friends.
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Its funny cause most of my text messages are like one or 2 words. So someone will text me “ok” or “talk later”. I dont even need to open the text message app to see what they said so it goes unread. My emails however…i have no excuse. One of my accounts literally says 999+ all the time. Pretty sure its at like 44,000 unread emails. I have given up the possibility of cleaning that up…I have a problem.
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TWSS
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Yeah i get it. My good friends and fam dont take offense to it anymore. I will however almost always pick up the phone if you call. If you go to voicemail though…dont even bother leaving a message. Lol
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Well done!!
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Yes see—we could be friends. I don’t like ANY unnecessary notifications of any kind. Not on my swipe-down screen, not as the little red numbers, nope uh-uh. I take such pleasure in clicking “no, do not allow notifications” on almost all my apps.
And pro tip— you can turn off the red numbers in the settings > notifications section. Unclick “badges” if you don’t want them. 
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The first step is admitting you have a problem
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Oh I LIKE to be notified. I have it turned off for a bunch of apps, but on for a bunch of others.
I just acknowledge the notification when it comes in. ASAP.
Or else what is the point???
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But what if you are doing something? Or what if it takes effort to reply to and you do not have time to put to it right then? I like the model that I saw once that described your day like a conveyor belt. Things are getting put on the belt by other people. You can take a certain number off in a day. Everything else falls on the floor. The trick is to pull the important things off and let the other things fall.
So ASAP would be as soon as possible. Not immediately. As soon as I am done what I’m doing I would reply.
And until then it has to sit there so I won’t forget!
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I have a google email I give out to companies that will probably want to send me stuff I don’t want to read. Then I look there when I am expecting something. Like a Birthday coupon. One time I couldn’t print the message, so I printed the screenshot. The waiter took the paper away and the manager came back. Not because he wanted to say I couldn’t use it but because he wanted to ask if I truly did have over 10 thousand unread emails.
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I still have my brothers old cap guns in my roll top desk!! I was just using one to scare all the crows out front
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