Essay Topic: Email is not dead.
Introduction
- Topic: Email remains most efficient and professional way of communicating technologically
- Acknowledgment of rapid increase of new communication technologies
- However, email has advantages over newer communication technologies
- Quote, “Analysts predict e-mail accounts will continue to grow even as instant messaging, texting, and social networking sites gain in popularity” (Infoworld article)
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- Topic: New Communication Technologies vs. Old Communication Technologies
- Positive aspects of New Communication Technologies
- Propose that familiar and known disappear into the new products and systems of technology
- However – older forms of communication have other uses which are still useful
- Older forms of communications are uniquely suited for certain situations
References:
- Ebook Library – Communication, Technology & Cultural Change (p 2)
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- Topic: Everyone has email.
- Hotmail alone has 280 million users
- It’s the only truly universal form of online communication
- Efficiency of email for college/university students – easy submission for written work
- IM, text messaging, not professional/efficient way of communicating to professors, students etc
References:
- 22 Reasons Why Email Is Not Dead - http://emailuniverse.com/ezine-tips/?id=1060
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- Topic: Email vs. Social Networking Sites
- Facebook & MySpace – not as user-friendly, not applicable to everybody as they are newer
- Facebook – 70 million users, 106 million accounts in 2006 – 1.2 billion email users (2007)
- Email can distribute information quickly to many people for the time it takes to email one person.
- Social networking sites require both sender and recipient to both be on same social network
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