On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:00 AM, RECMGMT-L automatic digest system wrote:

> From: John Annunziello <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: July 15, 2010 11:54:08 AM EDT
> Subject: Re: 37% of E-Mail users Would Stop Sending Them If It Cost Money
> 
> 
> Hi Hugh.....
> 
> Interesting article but I wonder if the author should have prefaced the 
> article with the fact that he called residences and not businesses.  I 
> would suggest that in the business realm, email continues to be the number 
> one means of communication.  Recent reports by Gartner and Radicati seem 
> to support this.

Yes but the inefficiency in business comes from the abuse by SPAM and distractions sending jokes. It is the fact that it is free that makes it so attractive to Spammers. I would not mind spending $0.05¢ to send a legitimate business email. Time is our most valuable commodity and email started off as a huge efficiency but now the ads and scams waste so much time. When my inheritance comes in from Nigeria I am quitting this racket. And from now on call me Prince Obi Wan Kenobi  as I have been told that is my Nigerian heritage name. (It seems I have heard that name somewhere before??)

Why I just sent off two "Little Larry" jokes to Peter and Larry this morning.  (BTW, Larry, the name thing is just a coincidence. Honest.)

Seriously what if email was as practical as we originally dreamed it would be?

> I did appreciate the fact that most Americans (76%) use the telephone to 
> communicate with friends and family.  I thought in this day and age where 
> social media seems to be the norm, that most are still using the phone. 

I bet cell phone had a lot to do with that. Even my wife's parents have a cell phone. They turn it on only on Saturday to call everyone with their free friends and family plan on weekends.  They are 88 and 87 but they are now on the grid.

Our family set up a Yahoo site and every one of us can post to it with family news. (Eight original brothers and sisters, four of us are still living, 25 kids from the eight, 31 grandkids, plus all the inlaws) 

It gives instant communication of news of birthdays, graduations and so on. It brought us all closer together. But you are right, it is the phone call that really spreads warmth.  Email can remove that.  But we call each other more as some post will trigger a call to share a laugh or a more heartfelt congratulations for a major event.


Hugh Smith
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