End this email madness
I hate email. There, I’ve said it. It is distracting, time consuming and perhaps just one in ten has anything useful / interesting to say.
So I was mildly horrified to read new research today from TalkTalk which claimed that email would die out within ten years - will it really take that long? I feel that as a personal communications tool it has served its purpose and been superseded by IM, texting and social networks.
And I’d suggest that it is now the biggest workplace productivity sapper since Stick Cricket. I’d estimate that I spend at least 25 per cent of my time reading and checking emails that just didn’t need to be sent. IM is far more effective for quick communication and Twitter also allows me to connect with colleagues, journalists and suppliers - so why cling onto email for another ten tortuous years?
Lets begin the migration of our contacts to IM/Twitter and end this email madness ASAP. Who is in?
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Comments (6)
November 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pm Posted by Chris Lee
I think we’ll have email in some guise for a lot of things - legal stuff, for example. Lawyers still send POST to each other!!
Bless ‘em
November 17th, 2009 at 4:38 pm Posted by Paul Allen
true, there are some cases where email has a place and I still get some that are of value.
But its just the ceaseless barrage of pointless information I object to
November 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm Posted by Hugh McKinney
You can always delete the “barrage of pointless information”.
The problem with getting ride of email is that large cohorts o fthe population (mainly the elderly) have only just got to grips with it - if we move on we will leave a number of users behind.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:54 pm Posted by PaulieA
good point Hugh. I guess I don’t want a complete ban, but I find it just so disruptive, its really hard not to open a mail when it pops up.
Research has been carried out into the impact on productivity it has and it doesn’t make great reading…maybe it should be used more akin to it’s original form, an electronic letter and we can use more productive technologies in the workplace?
November 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm Posted by Annabel Kerr
Maybe it is just because I have not been subjected to work emails for too long but I don’t think I have tired of them yet! I often find it easier to form my thoughts via email than anything else…and don’t Twitter and MSN slightly limit what can be said?
December 14th, 2009 at 10:50 am Posted by Not waving but drowning
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