The Necessity of Email

Society has become digitally dependent and as a result email has become an essential form of communication. Yes, it can be labeled terse, blunt, rude, and a peripheral form of communication, but it is also efficient, practical, reliable, and immediate. Society’s pace has quickened and communication merely followed. It can be noted that the majority of employed men and women spend a large sum of time perusing and responding to email daily, but this has become necessary. Emails have become such a crucial form of communication that important meetings, side notes, and entire conversations have been conducted strictly through email. In order to remain employed and update in the business world, email is essential.

If I had no access to e-mail for an extended period of time my life would be only slightly perturbed. I would communicate less often with my mother, and would miss out on important academic emails containing homework, lecture notes, study group meetings, and various club-meeting dates. It would most certainly be a hassle, but would be endurable. However, if for example my father were unable to access his e-mail for an extended period of time things would be quite different. His inbox would reach five hundred by the first three days and important meetings and contacts would be lost. For me, e-mail is definitely a different form of communication than my father and other businessmen and women; it is convenient and accessible however has yet to become a vital necessity.