When do I use E-Mail?
The main way in which I use E-Mail is to communicate over long distances quickly and cheaply. I use it regularly to email my dad in Afghanistan because it doesn’t cost anything and I don’t have to go through the hassle of working out a time to phone. Another major benefit of using email in this way is that the email can stay unread in mine or his inbox; we don’t have to both be online to send and receive messages.
The disadvantages of using email is that it takes quite along time to type out a message and sometimes if you delete your sent messages and clear out your inbox then you receive message referring to the previous message you can forget what it was about and become confused.
Email makes you more productive in that if you send a message to someone asking for a link or help you usually get it pretty quickly. It makes you less productive in that sometimes you can use the excuse I didn’t get the email when really you did you just couldn’t be bothered to reply or perform the task.