Fire…Fire…Fire
If you are a Beavis and Butthead
fan, you know they like fire. You also
know they are cartoons. There is another
type of fire that is not so animated. It’s
called the flame email. You know the
ones where someone lambasts you while hiding behind the safety of the keyboard. Just like a real fire, flame emails need source
of fuel to grow. That source usually
comes in the form of a response to said flame email. The source sends it, you respond and fan it
to a bigger flame, then they respond and fan it to even a bigger flame and
before you know it, you have a five alarm on your hands.
You can stop the flame email from
spreading by cutting off the fuel source.
Don’t respond. When I get them, I
do write a response, but I do it on paper on electronically but do not send
them. That way, my ego gets satisfied that
I have responded, but I have stopped the flame from growing by not responding
to the source of the flame. I write it
and forget it! It’s called burn journaling. Stop the spread of flame mail. Just say “delete.”
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