27 trips around the sun now complete. Time to start lap 28!

I'm not normally one to 'bitch' about things but one thing that has been happening recently is that I'll send somebody a nice little note, to welcome them to the site or even just to compliment their picture, and it gets erased UNREAD. This just comes across as rude people! You can't even take the time to at least open it? And yes I know that the mail system on here lets you read it without actually having to open it but still,  you could at least take the five seconds needed to open it up so I know you saw it.   Is that really too much to ask for?