It was the best of Times Email: is it our friend or our enemy?
It may be your best friend, a lifeline, then all of a sudden ... without warning, he turns on you!
Yes, e-mail and incredibly effective practice can be, sometimes you wonder if these e-mail is a welcome addition to our life ...
Admittedly, this is the best thing that ever happened to us!
Who can argue with the quick and easy email to communicate with others? It is perfect to send information that is too detailed information by phone.
And if you need to contact someone on the other side of the globe, then it could be faster or cheaper?
Email also means that you can be maintained at all times. Whether you're in front of a computer or in the countryside with your Blackberry. You'll never be in contact.
Or did he become our worst enemy?
The fact is that email is so effective, you can not stay out of reach, even if you wanted! If someone sends you an e-mail, they expect a response. And very quickly too!
Have you noticed that the email has got even faster over time? Remember those days when you had to click on the Send / Receive to retrieve e-mails? e-mail push email means these days "are automatically in your inbox, your email application (eg Outlook), does not need to check whether there are e-mails for you on the server to recover. We did not even breather more!
What about the masses of emails that you can sometimes in one day? All vying for your attention. Wondering why you're still received half of their time to time.
What is even worse, of course, are viruses and spam that hang around the internet as a gang of hoons, who seek to sow discord in your inbox when they can.
Unfortunately, the size of some of these antisocial behaviors were not anticipated when the mail was created, if safeguards sometimes email is not robust enough to protect your computer.
Did you know that email senders can forge their powers, which means that you can get an e-mail from someone who is not who they claim to be?
Who are we kidding though ...
Well, e-mail is not perfect, but how could we live without him?
Noticed how you feel when your email system goes down unexpectedly? Not that he is long before the arrival of withdrawal and you feel disconnected from the rest of the world.
And when the flow of bits and bytes again, even with the deluge of spam, calm is restored, and you feel loved again. Ah, e-mail a friend indeed.
Alex Kain is the owner of gizmos that sells a computer drive, which, among other things, reads e-mails in a human voice, while you drive.
Posted on March 29, 2010.
