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- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -3/+116My email is still stuck in the Internet tubes.
- Jowitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
- pierre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49Email is here to stay...join the real world. Try giving your AIM account to a customer and telling them to IM you later.......riiiiiiiight. Come on now.....
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45Sorry, I was downloading a video from YouTube and it must have gotten all tangled up with that.
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Send emails while betting on horse racing, then it will get there faster, because horses can run through tubes, because they have legs.
- Surreal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32This is stupid, IM is nothing like EMail. Maybe it could be replacing the phone, but um, email? No. Snail Mail? Definitely not. This is ridiculous.
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31When Telepathy hits the scene, they'll be saying the same thing about IM.
- daedalus01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I agree with pierre - IM really doesn't hold a candle to the level of professionalism that email (usually) entails in the business world. It would be absurd to expect email to be replaced by instant messages because of its "snail" quality (which I don't agree with, anyway).
And heck, for something like a business proposal, an instant response isn't even a reasonable idea. I would imagine that if you're negotiating multi-million dollar deals, you'd want some time to mull over the terms of the contract.
I think email did wonderful things when it came to a faster alternative to postal mail (the real "snail mail"), but I don't feel that instant messaging will replace email - they're apples and oranges in my opinion. - Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I think the better analogy is IM is the new telephone call.
- imspacevanman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19High school = AIM
College = Facebook / MySpace
Email = the real world
They'll grow out of it. - cecil_t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yeah, and wouldn't it be cool if instead of instantly typing to people, there was some way in which you could actually talk to people remotely, and in real-time? That'd be awesome.
- SovietBear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I'd much rather use Skype and talk with my girlfriend than IM. She has a sexy voice and can't spell.
On a serious note, though, e-mail gives the responder the luxury of time. It will be the standard of business communications for the forseeable future. - docillenstein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12That'd be awesome. The technology would revolve around phonics, the way people could potentially make sounds with their mouths and larynxes instead of just their fingers. Since this technology will go back and forth between places we will call it TELEPHONICS. Oh! If only someone could invent a device to allow for such easy communication!
- jonshadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12...and then we'll send some lotto balls through the tube and clear the whole thing out.
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Try giving them an email address and they won't contact you later either. The general public doesn't trust technology.
- manchld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I already get IM spam.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You can't compare a technology used for conversation to a technology used for correspondence. They both have their place, but offer disparate features.
Frankly, I think that IM is pretty stupid. I'd rather call somebody over trying to Instant Message them any day. Voice is quicker and more accurate.
Electronic correspondence (eMail) is great for business. One can get facts and details communicated, and most importantly have documentation. Sales guy trying to tell you that the maintenance was never said to be included? Oh wait a minute, I have it in writing! eMail! - cmm25, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"She became addicted to instant messaging in college, where many students are logged on 24/7."
thats funny, because i got addicted to pot and booze. - Eeqmcsq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10It's easier to hold a conversation with IM than with email.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It's probably called that because of how slow it goes through the overcrowded tubes. Maybe we should send a plumber to clear them out.
- Disease, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Gamble on some horses. They'll run through the tube and clear that up.
- psyckboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9No plumber required. Just send down a lotto ball.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Id still use email just for the simple fact that the mail I get makes the document I get seem more official than say getting it from someone via AIM.
- docillenstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6When you're in college and have loads of unsupervised time in front of a PC, yeah. It's real easy to chat back and forth. Unfortunately this isn't the case outside of school as the real world is filled with things that must actually be done.
- DarthSupero, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It's easier to have a conversation over the telephone than over AIM.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Junk mail has been successful in seeping into every form of major communication. One day, instant messaging will be the snail mail, as your msg box will be filled with penis enlargement and refinance your home msgs. There's no escaping it.
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yeah, I get that stuff on my MSN account already.
- manchld, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10its slow...kinda like a snail.
and it rhymes too! - bluemech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah IMs are pretty unprofessional, less permanant and too sparse. I only use google Talk myself but others use AIM, MSN, yahoo(*shudder*) or any other variety of IM services. Sure you can get a program that has all of them but that's a pain to manage and I really would rather just stick to one good one instead of a bunch of crappy ones.
- flash200, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The difference isn't how quickly the message arrives, the difference is that IM's are an interactive medium while emails are non-interactive.
When you're IM'ing, you're talking _with_ someone; when you're writing an email, you're talking _to_ someone (or _at_ someone). You can have a conversation by IM or by phone, but not by email or writing letters.
There are times when it's essential that the communication be interactive. There are also times when it serves no useful purpose (newsletters, bills). If emails are no longer hip and fashionable, that actually makes them more attractive in the conservative business world. Both will continue to play significant roles in the future. - nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4High School= Myspace/text messaging
Collage= Aim / email
Real world= whatever gets the job done the best
Email is more frequently used because you can CC someone and you have proof (sent items, so it's semi-proof) that it got sent. I currently work at a place where some maangers have IM (actually gmail messenger). Sometimes I email if I don't want to bug them (e.g. something not important enough to not pop up on the screen) but to customers I always email because I can say "yes, I sent it at X time". - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Not true. There have been spam IMs. IM clients came around after spam, and so the culture of whitelisting (only accept messages from friends) has always been with IM (at least available). The culture of email is that of blacklisting - don't accept from Sender X. Blacklisting doesn't work with email, because SMTP is too configurable. Sender address can be spoofed, and spam is sent from essentially random IPs (botnets). So any blacklist for SMTP email will never ever work.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2im might be if the company wants internal stuff but they wont likely trust ms google or aim or yahoo
besides why trust it to another bizness when a jabber server will do just fine
and email would be a better contender a tech biz might use irc to talk to customers in realtime but email is the best way to go - ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Uh..you just check the box that says "Do not receive messages from unknown contacts" or something like that. That way, no one but your list buddies can message you.
- hoogie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, in college I had mine on 24/7 also, but I got so sick of the constant barrage of messages from bored people with nothing else to do (not to mention time spent typing messages to people who lived down the hall) that I quit using it almost entirely.
- dfunct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I would actually be really interested in knowing how they actually send you the IM via MSN, I thought that all the messages had to come from email addresses that you had pre approved?
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Its likeness to a snail
- heretic24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Any statement of the form "X is the new Y" can be dismissed out of hand.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3IRC (And Skype) all the way :D
I use my e-mail for mostly LJ comment notifications, and the occasional more-formal letter to/from someone. - xino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with kevogod about having a record of the message to some degree. It can be really useful to have a written record of the message, but it really depends on the situation to determine whether it's worth while or not.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2execpt the electric company isnt gonna say
electroguy: p4y ur billz
u: k d00d lol - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In important business communication you somehow can't afford netsplits.
- ruller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, e-mails are definitely more professional. The other thing is that e-mail clients all work with each other, I can be using gmail and e-mail to people outside gmail without any trouble, IM services are quite that nice. I have two IM accounts, not because I like the features of one over the other or anything like that, but because my friends and family have their preferences. Yes there are all in one services, like Trillion (but doesn't have video support for free) and IMVite (not nearly are clean or eye pleasing as any IM service) but they can cause as much trouble as they help solve. E-mail isn't slow, just requires that you actually check it, that's why I have the Gmail notifier extension for Firefox, let's me know when I've got a new one, without have to browse back and forth... Just the same, e-mail is better for file e-mails, or anything that needs to be held on too, some clients actually let you store files in you e-mail for access all over, making it a nice portable filing cabinet. As for the customers being mistrusting of technology, I have a hard time believing anyone today doesn't have an e-mail address, or know how to use e-mail, so where are you that people are mistrusting of e-mail???
- Superthug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use E-mail and Instant Messenger virtually everyday. But the difference between the two for me is that when I sign into IM, I dont have a deliberate goal. I usually only sign into IM when I have nothing better to do.
I use e-mail when I have a need to communicate a specific message to someone rather then just saying hello or checking in.
I see IM as more recreational and E-mail along the lines of buisness. - KaiserAce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Email is here to stay, no doubt about it. Instant messaging is simply popular among the younger generation. That's not to say that older people don't use it, but it's simply more used than email by younger people. We'll be seeing email for a long time, if not forever.
- zwerdlds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5old people: inability to use computers period.
man, I hope we don't grow into that. - big65rich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Blitzmail = Dartmouth's mix between email and im = amazing
- 3adkied, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"thats funny, because i got addicted to pot and booze."
which many students are on 24/7. - TomGu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where the horse and lotto ball references are from:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DClkE64nFDY -
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