Recently, I’ve noticed that the email signatures of some colleagues have grown significantly. Some even include images, along with privacy disclaimers, etc… It’s annoying. Especially when one of them asks me if I got the attachment they sent? What attachment? This is a conversation I had recently with someone I communicate with frequently. I had come to expect that all this person’s emails would have attachments. That’s how many email programs and servers handle inline images. They might include them in the body of the email, but they almost always also attach them to the email itself. It all becomes noise. I’m sure it’s not what the sender intended when he/she spent valuable time building that elaborate, branded email signature!
By itself, that’s really not a big deal, but in the last year, I have become much more active with my Social Networking. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr just to name a few. Which one do I include in MY email signature? Do I include them all, and risk others tuning-out my noisy email signature too?
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