November 10, 2005
Email: It Used to Be So Good
Remember when email used to be great. When it was a powerful communications tool? Now, it seems to be a real PAIN with the tons and tons and tons of email you are receiving. You wish it was all important, but realize that much of it is a WASTE OF TIME.
The New York Times has a GREAT piece out and writes "I quit my job because of the stress, and it had almost everything to do with e-mail," he said.
It was not so long ago that e-mail dashed around the world with abundant good cheer, prompting people to race to the keyboard with anticipation, punctuate their sign-offs with smiley faces or TTYL (talk to you later) and express general wonderment at how life was ever lived before the in-box was invented.
But now that it has become an essential form of communication--with traffic exploding from 5.1 million messages in 2000 to 135.6 million messages in 2005, according to the Radicati Group, a technology and market research firm in Palo Alto, Calif.--e-mail is causing as much distress as delight. And it's driving an increasing number of employers, bosses and workers to find ways to control or curtail the load.[end post]
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