One of the most frustrating things in the world is to wake up with 50 emails, and 30 of them are spam. You’re a busy person, and sorting through junk mail isn’t something that you want (or are even able) to make time for. Want to avoid the spam? Try these three things!

1. 1.) Set Up Filters in Your Email

Is ImReallyAnnoying@spam.com emailing you incessantly? Check your email provider about how to filter out certain messages. You can often choose to have them filtered out by the subject line (or certain words in the subject line), the sender, or some other factor. On top of that, you can pick which folder to filter them to, like the TRASH! It might take a little time, but it’s better to spend an hour on email filters now to save you a whole love of time (and frustration) in the future.
Obviously, there’s one downfall here: Oftentimes, one sender will contact you with a different email address every time, doing so on purpose to avoid these very filters. The good news is that your email might easily suspect that the message is bogus and will automatically mark it as spam—or even better, send it to your spam folder automatically—so that you don’t have to be bothered with even reading it.

1. 2.) Keep a List of Every Account You Create—Period

Every time you turn around, you’re creating a new username and password for something. This has become necessary (to an extent) and it’s understandable that you might lose track of all of your accounts. The solution? Make a list!
This helps you do more than remember all of your accounts. Should one of these websites start spamming the heck out of you, you’ll know how to get back to their site, how to sign in, and how to delete your account or unsubscribe from their messages. After that, they should never be able to contact you again. Problem: solved!

1. 3.) Don’t Give Out Your Contact Information Willy-Nilly

Websites waste no time in asking for your phone number, physical address, email address, and other contact information; but there’s a way to go about answering their requests without totally leaving yourself exposed. Create a separate email address entirely for accounts that are just “extras,” meaning nothing essential that is imperative for you to receive immediately.
You can also avoid giving your phone number out. Putting something like “NA” usually won’t work, since your input has to be numeric. So, make it numeric, just like you’re being asked to: 000-000-0000.
You will never be able to avoid spam mail 100%--it’s just the nature of the beast; but with this advice, you can certainly cut back on it substantially. Always remember that the best solution is to prevent the problem in the first place: Be careful of who you give your information to!
Sisily West writes for tech blogs. Click here to read more about fixing computer problems.