Just like you say, every once-in-a-while I clear out all of the new messages waiting under the “Social Networking” label. If I had to see all of these notifications in my inbox, I don’t think I would ever get anything done.

I don’t know about the other part of the world, but back in my country Indonesia. Me and my friends always have at least 2 emails per individual.

One is for official email, usually contain our real name in it and one for junk emails, or not so important emails from not so important friends. If you know what I mean.

This way, we are order to separate our private life and our ’social’ life.

Hm, when it comes to me. I separate my emails based on my needs:
One email for official things – booking confirmations, applying job, banks document
One email for only close friends – incl. boyf
One email for sign-up things on internet -hey sometime they asked us to verify. eq. friendster, facebook, ivillage then they spam us with this daily news..sigh**
Another email for not so close friends, but you still like them to always there when someday you need them.

Hmm.. now..can you guess which email i used now ;-)

The little minus thing is you have to keep those email addresses always active. Otherwise you’ll loose them. Don’t know about u guys, but so far (for years) I’m fine with it, and felt really organized!

Happy surfing~

My way of separating info is email vs RSS for different tasks.

If I comment here, for example, I use email notification option. I don’t know if any comments are going to follow and for how long. So email is perfect.

In a place that I know to update daily and with a bunch of stuff – I use RSS. If RSS is unavaible – I scrape and create one. This allows me to set exact refresh pace and make few places update at the same time so I can look through them in one sweep.