E-mail has become today’s one of the most prominent forms of communication. Whether with an old friend, or a business partner, we often exchange e-mails to communicate. It is possible to argue that the modern people spend too much time on e-mails. However, in my opinion, even though enormous number of modern population have more than one e-mail address and spend fair amount of time checking and writing e-mails, e-mail does not command too much of our time. Oftentimes, junk mails annoy many of the users, but e-mails are now essential tool to deliver necessary messages and information instantaneously to people anywhere around the globe. In this regards, e-mail has in fact saved a great deal of time. It is undeniably true that even though a person in U.S. can spend an hour writing a lengthy e-mail to another person in Japan, it takes much more time to send a hand-written letter from U.S. to Japan.
For this reason, many people are increasingly becoming dependent on e-mail. Not having access to e-mail could cause problems such as companies having difficulties contacting their clients and business partners. My own life will definitely be affected as well if I were not to be able to use e-mail for a prolonged period of time. I would be worried that I am not informed of any important messages from professors, or of newest fashion styles from several brands, or do not hear from a friend in Korea. However, even without e-mail, I will of course be able to carry on with normal life. E-mail has embedded deeply in our lives, but it has only been a couple decades that e-mail came into our lives; generations well before e-mail has emerged in our society led perfectly happy lives. In fact, I could be spending time that otherwise would have spent writing e-mails on making face-to-face conversation and building more intimate relationships instead of isolating myself in a room in front of my laptop. Therefore, not having access to e-mail can definitely be less convenient, but it can also be opportunistic.
I love how you used numerous specific examples; they added greatly to your argument. More specifically, I liked when you compared the efficiency of sending an e-mail to a person in Japan to sending an actual letter. This example gives one of the largest discrepancies in the time it takes for you to communicate to someone in Japan. Also, I agree with you that e-mail is convenient and relied heavily upon in areas such as the workplace, but it is not absolutely essential. You proved this by stating that e-mail emerged only a few decades ago. Excellent job.
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