Communication Overload

There are many advantages to using E-mail in business, such as how you can communicate conveniently with your co-workers and also people that are not in the same location as you. It can also send out information to more than one person at a time, make appointments, and it is easier to filter than regular mail. It is also much faster than sending mail through UPS or FEDEX, or something similar, and also less expensive. You can send entire documents through email for free and it will arrive instantly. If shipping was used though, you would have to pay for it and it would also take time to arrive at it's destination.

However, there are many disadvantages to using E-mail in business. Some people get an "E-mail Overload" which is when they have recieved to many messages and spend more time reading or sorting them than actually working, and sometimes might not be reading all messages because of the large quantity of them and may miss something extremely important. E-mail is also not the most secure form of communication because some companies check E-mail communications from time to time. They might also check if a problem is suspected. Even deleting a message is not 100% safe. Even if you delete a message that is not meant to be seen, it does not mean that it was deleted from the system completly. Many companies back up the computer's and save all data, which includes e-mail files, even possibly deleted e-mail files.

I do not use E-mail all that much. I have an AOL account but I only check it about once every week. I mostly just get chain letters from my cousins. Instead of E-mailing my friends I just message them on Myspace. The only information I get is The Spanish Word of the Day, my Itunes reciepts, and my Myspace updates, but I always get them instantly. E-mail is easier to navigate through and find a particular message than regular mail, which I do happen to lose or misplace quite often, and E-mail is just easier for me since I can save it and filter it.