Question

e. Write advantages and disadvantages of email
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Answer

Email is a method of exchanging messages from sender to one or more recipients. Modern E-mail operates across the Internet or other computer network.

Advantages of E-mail →

• E-mails are easy to use. You can organise your daily correspondance, send and receive electronic messages and save them on computers.
• E-mails are fast. They are delivered at once around the world. No other form of written communication is fast as an E-mail.
• The language used in E-mails is simple and informal.
• When you reply to an E-mail you can attach the original message so that when you answer the recipient knows, what you are taking about. This is important if you get hundreds of E-mails a day.
• It is possible to send automated E-mails with a certain text. In such way, it is possible to tell the sender that you are on a vacation. This E-mails are called auto responders.

Disadvantages of E-mail→

• E-mails may carry viruses. This are small programs that harm your computer system. They can read out your E-mail address book and send themselves to a number of people around the world.
• Many people send unwanted E-mails to others. These are called spam mails. It takes a lot of time to filter out the unwanted E-mails from those that are really important.
• E-mails cannot really be used for official business documents. They maybe lost and you cannot sign them.
• Your mailbox may get flooded with E-mails after a certain time so you have to empty it from time to time.