Email Your Future Self

So, would you do it? Would you send an email to your future self to arrive three, five, ten or thirty years from now? Apparently there are people out in our small world doing just that. I read in my local paper today an article written by an Associated Press Writer that people are sending their future selves messages to arrive in the near or distant future through places like FutureMe.org. According to the article it's one of a handful of places that does this.

These services are touted as the Internet's equivalent to time capsules. It sounds like a load of crap to me. I like the idea of a present day time capsule and opening it in the future, but how on earth could an email written to myself be delivered to me in the future when email addresses are changed as often as a pair of socks. They say they have failsafe technology and backup software but the main thing they recommend to make this work is to hold onto that email address. Okay so I hold onto the email address but who's to say the provider will be around or I'll remember the login information thirty years from now. Like I said, it's all seems more like a load of crap and a way for these places to mine your email address legally.

Anyway, if I did send an email to my future self I would probably write a laundry list of my dreams and ask my future self to take stock in what I have or haven't accomplished. Then I'd probably feel like killing myself for not accomplishing my goals or be overly pleased with myself that I batted 1000. Either way I see no real use for the service and will go out on a limb and say I wouldn't use it. I won't say never though because every time I've done that I've gone off an done what ever I said I would never do, but that's a post for another day.

So, the question today is, to send or not to send messages to your future self, what will you do?