E-MAILING

By Cecilia Cervantez

One thing we know for sure is that communicating with people across town, across the country or even overseas has been found to be effortless with the aid of technology. E-mail has been one of these forms that allowed for easier communication. There are plenty of advantages of e-mailing, and when there are advantages it is only natural to trust that disadvantages also exist, which I believe is true.

Speed is an advantage; a very import and critical one. Sending an e-mail takes a few seconds, replying to one takes just the same amount of time and being able to send the same message to more than one person saves time. Another advantage includes the ease at which whole documents can be sent without having to print. Using e-mail you do not need to pay fees for extra time or long distance like on a telephone.

Many of us look at e-mailing without thinking of the disadvantages, and yet we seem to know all the advantages. Let me introduce you to a few of the inconveniences: It is extremely easy to get infected by a computer virus. It is also very easy to be misunderstood when you write to someone, causing confusion in your conversation. Another thing is privacy; your account can be hacked or it's easy to make a simple mistake of sending it to the wrong person. E-mailing, as you can see, has its ups and downs like any other thing.