Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Rise of Email

Another vastly important form of communication technology is email. Although we may consider email to be somewhat an older aspect of the internet, it is ever-changing and continues to grow in importance in today's society. Email has revolutionized how business and personal affairs are conducted by just sheer efficiency. However, there are underlying aspects of email that often go unnoticed that seem as relevant as the message itself. With today's insanely intricate technologies, hacking seems to be present everywhere and everything must be monitored. In fact, it is possible for a personal email to be checked at the workplace simply because the company or organization has the "right of ownership" over that particular emailing service. There is a great deal of ethics involved in email than meets the eye. Many messages can be misconstrued simply because face to face interaction isn't involved. Thus, much more care needs to be placed in details of emails. Since emailing happens so frequently, we can forget how much meaning these messages can actually imply.
In today's fast paced, busy society, it is important to have communication from distances for efficiency purposes. Email provides many solutions to many problems, but must be dealt with in a careful manner because with the many pros of email comes many cons.

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