Comments on: Is e-mail really for old people? And happy 35th birthday e-mail!

By: AnneHelmond

AnneHelmond — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:45:53 +0000

I’ve used it all: Usenet, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Skype, Fora etc. The only thing I am using right now is e-mail. I actually use e-mail like MSN sometimes. I often engage in short coversations over e-mail with a friend of mine. What I like about it, is the fact that I can reply when I want and I don’t have to excuse myself for not replying immediately. That’s why I stopped using MSN for now. MSN has this nice feature where you can indicate your status: online, busy, be right back, offline, etc. But it is all the same! When you put your status on busy or be right back, people still expect you to be there and to reply within a minute. That made me so nervous. People dropping messages in your MSN chat window like: “YOU THERE?!?!?” or “Where are you?” or “Why don’t you reply?” argh! So I switched back to e-mail only. I can take as long as I want to reply (altough I personally think it’s kind of rude to wait more than 24 hours to reply, but hey I’m guilty of that too). And people don’t expect an immediate answer. Sure I practically live behind my laptop so chances are that I will read your e-mail within five minutes, but I don’t have to reply to it if I don’t want to or if I am in the middle of something else.
I LOVE E-MAIL.

By: Twan

Twan — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:50:39 +0000

I think we also expect social options in e-mail, like meeting new friends from around the globe etc. E-mail used to let you contact friends you made in reallife, but now both is expected out of the WWW (e-mail + social).

By: roman.tol

roman.tol — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:35:18 +0000

I recon with the development in irc, chatting, and live feed the time to receive feedback from your reader has become much shorter. We are currently not used to waiting long for a reply, we want it immediately

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