Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using E-mail


Technology always brings new stuff which makes human life much easier than before. E-mail is one of the new inventions which lead us to easy life. What is e-mail? Actually, e-mail is stand for electronic mail which is a telecommunication technique of composing, sending, receiving and storing message over electronic communication system. This technology is use as a communication medium especially to deliver and spread new information to others especially family member, friends and publics. There are many benefits that we can get if we are using e-mail, but there are still several backward that we should cope with. This essay will focused on advantages and disadvantages of disseminating information or documents thru e-mail.

As we know, e-mail is use to sending information with the most effective and easy way. We can send whatever message that we want just by clicking the sent button and our friends or colleague will receive our message rather than using the postal service which take a long period to receive. Thus, recipient can respond or reply to our messages as soon as possible. However, e-mail user sometimes will faced with sending error or technical problem which always cause lost of important information. Sender might not know either recipient has got their messages or not. Uncontrolled messages can bring danger to the recipient who might get computer’s virus especially spam from other sources. This will contribute to the computer’s damage problems.

Other than that, application of E-mail can save our cost and budget of spreading information to others. People can forward their messages without worrying about its cost. That is why some companies or organizations prefer to use E-mail rather than other methods to advertising their products or giving other information to others. Their advertisement can also be forwarded by another company to other companies without compromise because it is not cost them a lot. This technique also can provide a lot of goodness for the regular customer who viewed for further information about a new company’s product. E-mail also can use by students who want to share their information or notes among their colleague. Students also can save their budget if lecturers just forward the notes to their student’s e-mail rather than make a copy for themselves. The only backward of using e-mail for this purpose is one’s e-mail inbox will full with unnecessary messages from variety sources. People will overlook the important message which they must read and reply.

Besides that, using e-mail will help people to communicate each other in the same time although they are not from the same places especially from different countries. This group still can reach their discussion’s decision even though they are not discussing that issue face to face and at the same place. However, peoples cannot have strength relations if they keep using this technique to communicate each other.

In addition, peoples might face lost of context that will arise misunderstanding problem. Recipient will understand the information in their own way and they will not get what actually want to say to them. Sender also confront with the instantaneous problem when the recipient take a long time to reply to their messages which need quick conformation.

Moreover, people can strengthen their relationship by using e-mail. They can exchange their photos, videos and other stuff to keep their family members and friends still in touch with them no matter where they are. Parent can feel relieves to see their children with their up to dates profile although they are far away from them. On the other hand, not all people can use e-mail. They cannot check their inbox e-mail if they does not have any internet access. Some people do not know how to use e-mail especially the old generation because this is a new technology for them. So, it will be difficult to them if they want to learn this new stuff because it will be quite complicated and they might not interest on it.

In conclusion, e-mail can be describes as the most useful technology to its user. There are many benefits that people will get if they disseminating information or documents thru e-mail. Despites of benefits which is brings by e-mail, there are several backward that we should cope with. So, as a smart user, we must always try to learn and explore each new invention in order to get its great benefits and try to avoid all it flaws.

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