Thanks: Just, Thanks. Thanks, dragonajie

I don't think it is necessary to reply an email with just 'Thanks'. I personally think it an irritating waste of resources, especially 5 seconds of precious time (that I can use to check Twitter) to click, read the damned word and close. No I don't have preview pane enabled in my Outlook; we were hit with worms from automatically loaded pictures a few years back so I had that off since.


I think, if you absolutely must show courtesy and your utmost appreciation in emails, say "Thanks, I'll buy you coffee next time" or "Thanks, let's go on a date". Just "Thanks" blows.


What irritates me the most though is auto-signature in emails that reads 'Thanks, [Sender name]'. Then the sender replied with just 'Thanks', so I get 'Thanks. Thanks, [Sender name]'. Seriously, I can't be the only one, right? RIGHT?


So let me give everyone a suggestion. Instead of replying with just 'Thanks' to end a thread of email conversations, just delete the message title and replace it with 'Thanks [EoM]'. Seeing that and 'EoM' (by the way that means End-of-Message, pops) the receiver would not bother to open your email and you get the message across.


Edit: I forgot that there's an even more irritating species: replying 'np' to a 'Thanks' to a mailing list of 100 people. Dear God #facepalm.


And don't even get me started on 'Your welcome'.


Thanks,
dragonajie