Fragmenting Communications

I felt a bit bereft as my e-mails dried up in recent years -- until I realised that my electronic communications were in fact fragmenting, not fizzling. I once received about twenty personal, meaningful e-mails a day (and many useless ones besides). But my communications now reach me through ten or twenty different channels, and the personal, meaningful messages are often far higher than twenty. OBSERVATION: Today, by 1:00 pm, I had received personal communications through six channels, that I noticed.  When the Internet got started, one had only one e-mail address -- then, instead of things becoming simpler, they became more complex.

POSTSCRIPT: I missed one (at first I wrote five channels).