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Hell phones do exist.

They are connected to Sprint or BT.

The Hell Services

I use email a lot. Especially for delivery conformation and talking to online stores.... I don't use facebook though.

NO letters are going obsolete more than anything. I send alot more emails per a day than i do write letters in my entire life.

I wrote a few letters last year.

Da Boss wrote:In jobs where communication and paper trail is important (ie. most of them) emails are used a tonne.

My God yes.

For example, both of my jobs are primarily based on telecommuting. I had to open two separate accounts just to handle the volume.


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Asherian Command wrote:NO letters are going obsolete more than anything. I send alot more emails per a day than i do write letters in my entire life.

It would take me more than a minute to remember how to hand address something, and I would probably get it wrong.

Same with writing cheques.

I still use email often, but I will admit, that most of my personal contacts are sent through a social network

I use email as my primary form of non-face-to-face communication with everyone I know and everyone I don't. I hate talking on the phone, in fact, I don't ever answer unless it's someone I feel like talking to, which is usually no one but my girlfriend. I've hated texting since it was invented, and even IMing too, I hate facebook and twitter where you're encouraged to tell the world that you just walked your dog or made a sculpture out of your belly button lint. Because all of your interweb "friends" care. Really. They do.

I don't see email going away ever

I suspect that email is probably most used by the sort of literate people who 25 years ago would have written lots of memos and letters.

In other words, the limited facilities provided by SMS and IM are useful for chat functions but not for important business or personal communication, and they are used for "blah" communication.

My company evaluated IM for business use and found it a half-way step between phone calls and emails but not a replacement for either. Which posed the question, why bother with another piece of software to install/learn/train/upgrade when actually you could just use the phone or email.

Because during boring meetings you can IM/text the people next to you on your company provided mobile devices!

If you wrote a letter or called them, it would be too obvious.

Email is very important for things like bug reports.

I use email for nearly all of my communications with friends. I dislike sites such as facebook. Gmail is awesome.

Easy E wrote:Because during boring meetings you can IM/text the people next to you on your company provided mobile devices!

If you wrote a letter or called them, it would be too obvious.

We never have boring meetings.

Melissia wrote:

pretre wrote:

Joey wrote:Yeah but come on...HELL PHONES.

I lol'd.

The rules for punctuation don't change that much anyways.

Yeah they do. English professors constantly disagree on them.

>english professors constantly disagree on them.

what in modern day technology do they not disagree with?

Emails are still good for sending files or papers to my profs.

And the few friends that don't use facebook. Facebook to me is just an exclusive club email. I don't really get involved with it like some people do. Such as people giving their life updates what they are eating what pokemon they are from some test.

Don't have twitter. My life is boring. And 99% from what I have seen from people are boring as well. Seems like twitter is great for business and seeing who makes stupid mistakes when drunk. My friend lost his girlfriend thanks to his stupidity via twitter.

No clue how to text message. Tried to do it once and failed. I'm probably the only 24 year old in the industrialized world that has never sent a text message.

I like to make myself feel better thinking that when everyone else is doing it you are not cool, and by not doing it, it makes you a bad ass rebel.

pretre wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:That's what I thought. I get most of the orders for my engraving business via e-mail. I just wish there were a way to take back knowledge of my e-mail address from certain entities who will not leave me alone.

Heh. I have my own domain name. Every time I interact with a person, website or company, I give them their own e-mail address*. In cases where I have to post an address somewhere public, I create a throwaway address. I then forward all of these addresses to one e-mail box. When one starts going south, I block it. Works out pretty well.

* Example: Dakkadakka2@mydomainname.com

If I start getting spam at Dakkadakka2@mydomainname.com, I know which company to blame.

Same here, works out pretty well.

Melissia wrote:

kronk wrote:

Horst wrote:I send and receive 30-40 work emails per day... couldn't do business without them.

Same. And I send personal emails that need more than 1 or 2 sentences in a phone text.

Text messages make me rage. THey bring out the beast that stalks the night and slaughters innocent children. Evil incarnate, they are.

That's why I actually type out everything.

A text from me: "Hey, what are you doing right now?"

A text from them: "nuttin, wbu? you still on 4 2 nite?"


Really grinds my gears....

Further to this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8921033/Staff-to-be-banned-from-sending-emails.html

Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos and a former French finance minister, wants a "zero email" policy to be in place within as early as 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful. Instead he wants them to use an instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.