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Advantages of Email
The benefits of e-mail are huge in number.
Easy to use: E-mail frees us from the tedious task of managing data of daily use. It helps us to manage our contacts, send mails quickly, maintain our mail history, store the required information, etc. Speed: The e-mail is delivered instantly, anywhere across the globe. No other service matches the e-mail in terms of speed. Easy to prioritize: Since the mails have subject lines, it is easy to prioritize them and ignore unwanted mails. Reliable and secure: Constant efforts are being taken to improve the security in electronic mails. Thus making it one of the secured ways of communication. Informal and conversational: The language used in e-mails is generally simple and thus makes the communication informal. Sending and receiving e-mails takes less time, so it can be used as a tool for interaction. Easier for reference: When one needs to reply to a mail, there is a provision in the mailing system to attach the previous mails as references. This refreshes the recipient's knowledge, on what he is reading. Automated e-mails: It is possible to send automated e-mails using special programs like the autoresponders. The autoresponders reply back to the sender with generalized pre-written text messages. Environment friendly: Postal mails use paper as a medium to send letters. Electronic mail thus, saves a lot of trees from being axed. It also saves fuel needed in transportation. Use of graphics: Colourful greeting cards and interesting pictures can be sent through e-mails. This adds value to the e-mail service. Advertising tool: Many individuals and companies are using e-mails to advertise their products, services, etc. Disadvantages of Email
The e-mails, though beneficial in our day-to-day life, has got its own drawbacks that are offlate coming to the fore.
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Viruses: The sender could send viruses and malware through attachments if recepient doesn't scan it. These are computer programs having the potential to harm a computer system.
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These programs copy themselves and further infect the computer. The recipient needs to scan the mails, as viruses are transmitted through them and have the potential to harm computer systems.
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Spam: E-mails when used to send unsolicited messages and unwanted advertisements create nuisance and is termed as Spam. Checking and deleting these unwanted mails can unnecessarily consume a lot of time, and it has become necessary to block or filter the unwanted e-mails by means of spam filters.
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Spamming includes, sending hoax e-mails. E-mail spoofing is another common practice, used for spamming. Spoofing involves deceiving the recipient by altering the e-mail headers or the addresses from which the mail is sent.
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Hacking: The act of breaking into computer security is termed as hacking. After the e-mail is sent and before it is received by the desired recipient, it "bounces" between servers located in different parts of the world. Hence, the e-mail can be hacked by a professional hacker.
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Email can compromise the security of an organisation because sensitive information can be easily distributed accidently or deliberately. Email should be entrusted to well trained and trusted staff members.
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Misinterpretation: One has to be careful while posting any kind of content through an e-mail. If typed in a hurry, the matter could be misinterpreted. Emails could be misunderstood especially if the email is miswritten by the sender.
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Lengthy mails: If the mail is too long and not properly presented the reader may lose interest in reading it.
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Not suitable for business: Since the content posted via e-mails is considered informal, there is a chance of business documents going unnoticed. Thus, urgent transactions and especially those requiring signatures are not managed through e-mails.
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Crowded inbox: Over a period of time, the e-mail inbox may get crowded with mails. It becomes difficult for the user to manage such a huge chunk of mails.
Need to check the inbox regularly: In order to be updated, one has to check his e-mail account regularly.
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communicate with each other
Every day, the citizens of the Internet send each other billions of e-mail messages. If you're online a lot, you yourself may send a dozen or more e-mails each day without even thinking about it. Obviously, e-mail has become an extremely popular communication tool.
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makes possible further communication between people
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The Internet allows us to interact with each other in many different ways.
We can send each other email.
We can leave messages for others on bulletin boards and Usenet newsgroups.
Internet telephony allows us to talk to each other like we were using a telephone, and to even send a video image.
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We can chat in "real time."
All of these methods of online communication harness the power of the Internet to allow us to communicate over thousands of miles. They each have strengths and weaknesses.
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As we consider using the Internet to communicate about mental health it will help if we understand some of the differences between these methods of communicating.
Email was one of the first Internet communication modalities.
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Even before the Internet officially existed students and faculties at colleges and universities were using networks such as BITNET and ARPANET to communicate with each other.
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Email is asynchronous. It allows me to send you a message when you are not online. You can then read the message at your leisure. It is (at least in theory) private. You can read my message, but it is not publicly available to others.
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﹟allow you to carefully compose your message and send it when it says exactly what you want it to.