Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools. I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is go…
Actually, in my experience, and the experience of most of the people in my life, email is a valuable tool that we consistently use, and rarely have any problems with. Spam is a minor inconvenience , at most. (And certainly less of one than the overwhelming number of ads on Facebook.) Phishing is almost non-existent, and very easy to ignore when it pops up a couple of times a year.
In fact, without email, I think the internet would be pretty horrible.
People love to criticize email, but it's actually quite great. It's distributed, low cost, easy to use, and nearly universal. It has mature tools that make the obvious problems (such as spam) not really a problem. And most email senders actually make it easy to unsubscribe. I regularly subscribe/unsubscribe to email lists -- and it's nice having control over what comes into my email inbox.
Email, frankly, is what more of the internet should be like...!