Got it. Got it? Got it!

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1. Got it. Thanks.
2. Noted.
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Two simple responses. A show of manners and etiquette. And basically informing the other person that you got/received/understood what he/she was trying to inform you. Or if you didn't really at all... number 2 would buy you some time to mull over what it is really you are supposed to have gotten/received/understood.

Seriously.

If we can send a gazillion "k" texts a gazillion times a day, over a gazillion text messages we don't really even need to respond to, why not the same thing over email? It's not like we're using more electricity and spending more by sending a simple "Got it. Thanks." in emails.

I remember my boss telling me she loved my "Noted." email responses to her emails sometime back. I was taken aback. Haha. Maybe it was because nobody else did that to her. Yeah. Maybe. Then again, I would've thought it was just common courtesy to notify the person that you got his/her email.

Looking back, I never really did see its essence until later on... when I was the one who was informing people of things. People! I just sent you something. At the least let me know that you got my email!!!

I think this stems out from recent experiences.

1. I asked a friend to help me email another friend's picture to him. I just never got anything from her after asking her this favor. Ok, so never mind the fact that I could've just asked her this friend's email......... ok ok ok, so yeah, maybe I should've just asked. Ok ok ok. Fine. Yes, I should've just asked. There. Satisfied?

2. I asked the same friend to help me email again another friend's pictures to him. And once again I never heard from her. Has she forwarded the pictures? Did she have the email of this friend at all? TELL ME SOMETHING! After about a week, I asked her if she was able to forward the pictures, only to find out that she hasn't... because she didn't have that friend's email. By golly. She could've informed me the moment she got my email that she didn't have that friend's email, and that 1) she could ask somebody else to forward it, or 2) ask me to find a way to email the pictures of the friend myself. Why o why o why?

3. I finally got the email of this friend, and emailed him the pictures. And once again, I never did get any "Got it. Thanks." email back. Of course I know he got the pictures. But, I still would've appreciated it if I got a response that he actually, ACTUALLY, got what I sent him.

Ok. of course not all emails need to be "gotten and thanked", what with all the virus-linked emails, even from our friends whose email accounts were hacked... but, I'm sure you can tell, and besides, you know what I mean.

Come to think of it... I rarely send "k" text messages to my friends. Only when there's a rhetoric question I simply cannot not send a response to. But then again... sending "k" text messages costs me a few dollars where I am, whereas a "Got it. Thanks." or "Noted." email doesn't even disrupt my adsl speed. But I (think I do) try to respond to emails as much as I can.

So please, people, unless you're paying extra for each email you send, or for the extra byte you use on your already-paid-for Internet services, it's a nice gesture to inform the sender of the email that you received whatever it is he/she's sending... or that you're still alive and breathing, and that the email wasn't sent in vain.

Got it?