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The New Politics of Email |
April 11, 2007 10:39pm |
Now that blackberries have infiltrated many levels of society a new type of protocol for email has yet to form.
It all begins with the owners of these gadgets who generally do not know how to turn off the send and receive schedule for their email. So at all hours of the day & night those crack-berries are chirping beeping buzzing w/e because emails still come in at all hours even though calls have temporarily suspended during the night. Problem is people don't think about this when drafting up an email at 1am. Which shouldn't be an issue but the sender may want to consider that their email could not only deliver a message but also wake up the receiver in the middle of the night.
The alarm of a new email in the middle of the night is just one problem. As convenient as the blackberry is, it tends to only fit a few dozen words into one screen shot. So while a 3 paragraph email may have been well thought out, chances are the first paragraph gets most of the attention. Email is not text messaging but this condition has spurred a new wave of short half sentence replies. The recipients should be responsible and decide to go through lengthy emails later so to give them the full attention they require.
More on this in a little .. just a rant yah know - these things take time :-)
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