E-mail/E-mail Lists
E-mail allows people to send a written message very quickly,, to either one recipient, or several if using an
e-mail list.
Where before people relied on the likes of sending letters, where they had to work through several lengthy stages before the message was received by the recipient, now they can send the message instantly.
The message is sent through the Internet, so doesn't allow for face to face communication or verbal. (Like a phone call would).
It enables large company's, or even small ones, to send messages to co-workers quickly instead of walking to their office etc. It allows easy, quick and effective message sending.
I personally use e-mail if I want to target a large audience - in which case I use an e-mail list, for example looking for a new housemate, I found loads of people on different websites who had been looking and sent them all the same e-mail.
I also use general e-mails if I have something important to tell someone or if I generally just want a quick chat with them.
E-mails have become important to me now I am at University as it is a way of getting hold of my tutors whenever I need a bit of help with something, it also allows them to communicate with us and tell us of any room changes etc. There is two downsides to email for me, one is that you get junk e-mails, but this personally doesn't bother me that much as I just delete them everyday so my inbox is never jam packed full of them. A larger problem I have with e-mail though is that if someone e-mails you something important and you havent checked your e-mail you don't know about the 'important' message that was sent too you.
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megan! i agree with u i never ever check my emails often enough and by the time i do look at them its to late because i need to no about it the day before like if there has been a change in seminar time. i check facebook everyday though.
I also check my e-mails AFTER a library notice has been sent, so it's always too late to renew it and I usually check them after I've been in Uni all day so cant be bothered trekking back!
But sending e-mail is still going to get to me a lot quicker than what a letter in the post would, so new media has definately improved for the best. People just arent looking at e-mails as the same way as letters are they? It's not like e-mails has replaced them, both forms of communicaton still exsist! So we always get our letters in the morning - why dont we always check our e-mail inbox in the morning?!
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