Email

Email in Society


 Benefits of email:  

• Email is a fast way of organizing contacts, emails and stay in touch with friends. This is why many people have switched to email from letter writing as it is quicker and easier.
   
• The e-mail is delivered instantly, anywhere around the world. This differs from letters as post can take days or even weeks if the letter needs to travel to America or China for instance. This means it is easy to communicate with friends, family and work colleges and get quick replies. There is no other means of contact that matches the speed of email and the range of options that you can use to enhance a simple conversation.
   
• Now email clients have features such as 'Spam blokers/filters' or 'automatic orgnaisers' built in, email systems have made it easy for us to prioritize unwanted emails or Spam that we don't need.
   
• Email is becoming more and more reliable and secure. As email is developing at a tremendous speed many improvements have been made to the security of emailing. This means it is becoming a safe way of communicating with people.
   

• Many companies are now using email as an advertising tool. This is a new way for businesses to advertise products to the public.
  
  Problems of email:
   

• Computer viruses are most commonly delivered through email because there is no certification mechanism for email senders. This means that viruses or worms are becoming more and more common and even by just clicking on an email can initiate a virus which can ruin your computer. 
• E-mails when used to send unsolicited messages and unwanted advertisements are called 'Spam emails'. This becomes annoying to receive as it takes time to delete these emails and so it has become necessary to block or filter the unwanted e-mails using Spam filters.  
• Crowded inbox's are a regular occurrence nowadays. Over a period of time, the e-mail inbox may get crowded with a range of emails from Spam to emails you just have had time to delete. This makes it difficult for the user to manage their inbox as it is too overcrowded and unorganized.