Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guy's quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

A 12-year-old listener Aaron wrote in and called in, but it turns out we can't legally broadcast callers under age 13.

Dear Get It Done Guy, I've already listened to your fantastic email Zen podcast, to your quick and dirty email backlog podcast, and to your other great email management podcasts.

Gee, is this email to Bernice?

But I still have a major problem, spam from Facebook and news sites.

I tried making folders, deleting everything, spam, and that handy, move all that bothersome mail

from that same old constipated email address to that same old helpful folder. But, sigh,

nothing works. Please fish me out of that sea of Facebook, CNN, Superwall, MSNBC, Jetman,

the Boston Globe, and SpeedRacer emails. A devoted 12-year-old listener, Aaron. Thanks for writing

in Aaron. The quick and dirty tip is to listen to this whole episode because it can't be

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email since I was your age, actually. But back then, there was no such thing as spam. Well, there was, but it was a

tasty meat product you could slice, fry up with butter, and eat in blissful ignorance of the

health consequences. Spam the meat is alive and well at Spam.com, where you can browse all 13

varieties and even learn how tiny amounts of sodium nitrate keep spam looking tasty pink.

Electronic spam isn't as tasty, but it also comes in several varieties.

Each variety needs its own solution.

First, kill lots of spam by setting your email preferences on Facebook and social sites

to send only the updates you want.

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