Delete, archive or… hoard? 5 reasons most people hang on to their email…

July 22 2011, 2:03pm

Last month, to celebrate our 1 millionth signup, we asked you about your email IQ or Inbox Quotient. We asked the question “Are you a Hoarder, a Shopper, a Socialite, or a Pro?” We have to say we were a bit surprised by the results!

51% of the respondents said they were email hoarders. Hoarders hold on to everything and rarely delete anything outta their inbox. They have little reason to really. Webmail products such as Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL and Hotmail keep adding storage so we have been conditioned to think that we should never delete anything. In the new consumer cloud, there is more than enough space for all those things you might have to go back and dig out of your inbox. Why do hoarders have a hard time getting rid of emails? Here’s 5 things that might be driving our collective non action. 5- Cluelessness- Some peeps have no idea what is going on in their inbox. They just know they have a lot of email! 4- Reference- Sometimes you gotta go back and check the tape. 3- Phone numbers and addresses – What was that phone number again? 2- Attachments- That photo of your cute nephew on the pony? He can’t ride that pony anymore. 1- Laziness- We got all the hard drive space in the world, right? Right? Whatever reason you have for holding on to email, we got your back with Organizer! Organizer is perfect for making sense of those less-than-important messages you get by automatically organizing them into folders and leaving space in your inbox for all the other stuff you probably won’t get around to deleting or archiving anytime soon. =)