A paragraph about e mail the negative and positive effects
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THE GOOD ......
Some of the technical advantages of email over communication alternatives were obvious early on. Among them:
Email can be as fast as needed. As a network medium, email disposes of transmission delays imposed by geographical distance.
Email, like post and unlike other electronic communication, is both asynchronous and half-duplex, and thus does not require scheduled, endpoint-to-endpoint connectivity. This enables sender and receiver to interact with their message autonomously and without distracting cross-talk.
Email is a digital medium which (in principle) makes it amenable to the full range of computer-based tools and applications available on the desktop, most noteworthy file management tools.
Email enables users to schedule interrupts. In one sense, email distractions are on-demand. Should one feel the need for interruptions, bells, whistles and sundry other annoyances are only a setup toggle away; else, one tucks away the client's window where it can be ignored or closes the program. Of course this may only delay the inevitable. More on that, below.
Email is both paperless and archivable by default.
Email can be very efficient and, in the context of desktop automation, is also very convenient. The efficiency derives in part from the fact that both sides of email communication may be completed in isolation - one doesn't listen to the other party. While not as physically convenient as the telephone (even with wireless communication, it's still awkward to email from bed or the tub), by the standards of modern desktop applications standards, it's as good as it gets.
Email appears to be free, or at least cheap to the user. The appearance is illusory, of course, as free lunches are as hard to find in cyberspace as anywhere else. But the cost of network connectivity, which makes email the luxury that it is, is either borne by the taxpayer and employer (as with direct Internet connections) or bundled with other online services (as in the case of online service providers). In either case, the charge is hidden. As a result, it's difficult at this point to put a price tag on the value of the service
THE BAD.....
As with any new technology, email was found to have a darker side. More than an inexpensive communications medium, email may also be an individual and organizational resource drain. Here are some drawbacks that come to mind:
Email may lead to communication slavery. My law of digital sinkholes holds that once the foot is in, the ankle, and leg soon follow in order. In this case, a conscientious, established emailer has nowhere to hide once the email address gets out - and email always (almost) gets through. One normally can't ignore email, as one ignores the telephone, without the potential of repercussion - even if it's unsolicited and from a stranger. Few among us can afford the luxury of disconnecting ourselves.
The convenience of email encourages abuse at the inter-personal level. Since email may easily circumvent established organizational information routes, and since there is no cost to the sender associated with the transmission, the temptation to harangue a stranger is sometimes too much to ignore.
Email extensions encourage irresponsible mass-mailings. Alias and distribution lists make email bombing and spamming inevitable. Like telephony, the advantages of email are most evident as point-to-point communication; and like hardcopy junk mail, the disadvantages of email are most evident when it comes to "broadcasting" because if its inherently intrusive nature
There are still few effective tools for adjusting email in-flow to what Peter Denning calls "personal bandwidth." It is interesting to note that not a great deal has changed since Peter Denning made this point in 1982!
Some of the technical advantages of email over communication alternatives were obvious early on. Among them:
Email can be as fast as needed. As a network medium, email disposes of transmission delays imposed by geographical distance.
Email, like post and unlike other electronic communication, is both asynchronous and half-duplex, and thus does not require scheduled, endpoint-to-endpoint connectivity. This enables sender and receiver to interact with their message autonomously and without distracting cross-talk.
Email is a digital medium which (in principle) makes it amenable to the full range of computer-based tools and applications available on the desktop, most noteworthy file management tools.
Email enables users to schedule interrupts. In one sense, email distractions are on-demand. Should one feel the need for interruptions, bells, whistles and sundry other annoyances are only a setup toggle away; else, one tucks away the client's window where it can be ignored or closes the program. Of course this may only delay the inevitable. More on that, below.
Email is both paperless and archivable by default.
Email can be very efficient and, in the context of desktop automation, is also very convenient. The efficiency derives in part from the fact that both sides of email communication may be completed in isolation - one doesn't listen to the other party. While not as physically convenient as the telephone (even with wireless communication, it's still awkward to email from bed or the tub), by the standards of modern desktop applications standards, it's as good as it gets.
Email appears to be free, or at least cheap to the user. The appearance is illusory, of course, as free lunches are as hard to find in cyberspace as anywhere else. But the cost of network connectivity, which makes email the luxury that it is, is either borne by the taxpayer and employer (as with direct Internet connections) or bundled with other online services (as in the case of online service providers). In either case, the charge is hidden. As a result, it's difficult at this point to put a price tag on the value of the service
THE BAD.....
As with any new technology, email was found to have a darker side. More than an inexpensive communications medium, email may also be an individual and organizational resource drain. Here are some drawbacks that come to mind:
Email may lead to communication slavery. My law of digital sinkholes holds that once the foot is in, the ankle, and leg soon follow in order. In this case, a conscientious, established emailer has nowhere to hide once the email address gets out - and email always (almost) gets through. One normally can't ignore email, as one ignores the telephone, without the potential of repercussion - even if it's unsolicited and from a stranger. Few among us can afford the luxury of disconnecting ourselves.
The convenience of email encourages abuse at the inter-personal level. Since email may easily circumvent established organizational information routes, and since there is no cost to the sender associated with the transmission, the temptation to harangue a stranger is sometimes too much to ignore.
Email extensions encourage irresponsible mass-mailings. Alias and distribution lists make email bombing and spamming inevitable. Like telephony, the advantages of email are most evident as point-to-point communication; and like hardcopy junk mail, the disadvantages of email are most evident when it comes to "broadcasting" because if its inherently intrusive nature
There are still few effective tools for adjusting email in-flow to what Peter Denning calls "personal bandwidth." It is interesting to note that not a great deal has changed since Peter Denning made this point in 1982!
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