Woody wrote:My premise is not that people don't use email or that it can't be effective. Or that it's going to disappear tomorrow. It clearly is a great tool. My point is that people use it for absolutely everything (to bucky and others' point , no one even makes a phone call anymore, even when it's the fastest and best solution), and a lot of people just absolutely get crushed with sheer volume. I'm sure the average american desk worker spends entirely too much of their day "doing email" instead of actual work (when they're not reading BSG). At what point does someone say, "you know what, these 42 emails I got while I was taking a dump really aren't necessary, or effective." Surely you've all partaken in an absolutely maddening email reply-a-thon that essentially led nowhere, when a 3 minute conversation would have solved the problem--right? This type of thing happens almost constantly to me.
To sum: There's too much communication. It's unproductive, and yet still robs us of leisure and privacy. And people often misjudge the most efficient communication method.
Also, if e-mail reply-a-thons are bad, doing it with texting is even worse.
