E-mail is an essential form of communication in today’s society; thus, we must spend part of each day either viewing or sending email. As a student at the University of Michigan, everyday I receive emails from the university. This is because a lot of the university emails contain vital information that needs to reach every student, such as information regarding the housing sign-up for next year. I need to read this email so that I do not miss any of the important dates for housing sign-up. Consequentially, reading this email takes up time from my day. In addition, in the business world, email is absolutely essential. There are countless tasks that each business has to accomplish and this requires communication amongst people. E-mail is one of the most efficient ways to communicate ideas when speaking face to face is not an option.
My life would be less affected than other people’s lives if e-mail could not be accessed. I receive a relatively small amount of email. I’m not a top executive of a large corporation that has to communicate with other people constantly. I could still keep in touch with my friends via Facebook. I could use c-tools to access most of my homework, lectures notes, and other pertinent information. However, contacting my professors, G.S.I.s, and counselors would be more difficult. I would receive an abundance of regular mail. Any important school information would have to be sent to every student by paper handouts. I do not think I would save much time if e-mail vanished because I would have to send and read information via a different medium, which still requires time.
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I somewhat disagree with you, brfreebo. I am also a student at the University of Michigan; I receive an email from many different places. Although it is true that emails contain vital information, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s only because of vital information. For example, I not only get vital information, but also other junk mail as well such as pre-health application and etc. I think they use an email because it is very efficient, meaning they can send same information to many other students at once. Since, not able to access to email for certain period of time could cause many different problems such as sending information to others and updating schedules from variety of organizations such as school, outside activity club, and etc.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea that because we oftentimes receive vital information via e-mail, it is essential form of communication thesedays. E-mail is definitely a efficient way to communicate with a lot of people at once -as you said about reaching every student.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that e-mail is one of the most efficient ways of communicating when face-to-face conversation is not possible. Like we learned in our class, people can sometimes misinterpret meanings when communicating using written forms, but e-mail is indeed efficient communication tool due to its speed and capacity to reach any audience with an e-mail account.
I liked how you gave specific examples of alternatives to e-mail in the second paragraph. This showed that advanced technology has allowed us to communicate in many different ways, and to choose appropriate way to communicate for different purposes, and circumstances.
Brfreebo, I think you're massively underplaying the convenience of e-mail. Top executive of a massive company or not, e-mail helps everyone. The fact that you have your e-mail the moment after it is sent is already saving time as opposed to waiting for it through the post office.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, it is through your e-mail that ctools sends you notifications about new announcements or updated resources. Without such notifications it would be much more difficult for you to know what to look for in ctools. Yes, you could religiously look under every drop-down menu in ctools to find what you need, but it is so much easier when the e-mail notification tells you what you need and where it is.