E-mail

My life is being taken over by e-mail. It seems like it should be one of the requirements in college courses to check your e-mail every two hours, or you will fall behind or have no clue as to what is going on. Plus, if you wait til the end of the day to check it, you find you're e-mail has practically exploded, and you now need to pick up an rearrange the fragments of your life.
My biggest pet peeve about this, though, is people have become lazy. Teachers, groups, friends whatever think they don't actually need to decide anything when they're actually right there talking to the person because they can just sent them an e-mail or a text the next day. And then the next day. And then, oh wait, can I change that again? For heavens sake people, is it that hard to figure out when homework is due and where to turn it in at? Or what time you can go bowling?
Better yet are the e-mails that tell you there's something coming up in the future, but we don't have any details yet. Then why the heck did I just waste my time reading this? And then over the course of another 5 e-mails, if you don't lose one of them, you find out, hopefully, all the details. If I really needed to know about what was going on in the first e-mail, then the details should have been figured out already. If not, send me one e-mail 5 days later with all the details. Oh, and professors who send out extra homework via e-mail the day before class better have a darn good explanation for it. I understand people are busy and sometimes forget to mention things, but I think everyone ought to try treating other people with a little bit more respect and take responsibility for the fact that they forgot to put the homework on the syllabus, so they should be the ones to deal with it. Not the poor people being attacked by their inbox.
One more thing, DON'T cancel via e-mail. Honestly, it's just rude.