Defenses
When others criticize email, I defend it.
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You knew this was coming. Terence Eden who blogs at some weird URL called shkspr.mobi, but who is widely known and followed, goes on a small rant about stupid people who still fail to understand how to use the BCC feature. He correctly points out that BCC is part of the original email specification from
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Lauren Goode at Wired Magazine wrote a great piece that had my stomach in knots as I read it. She posits that, gasp, the boundaries between our instant messaging culture and what it used to be 25 years ago, when services like AOL Messenger existed, have degraded. She states those boundaries used to be clearer and, quite
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Sigh. Here we go again. The New York Times used a slow news day to vent about email and hint that Generation Z will one day free us from email. A fan of ‘Just Use Email’ told me about this article knowing it would ‘trigger’ me (to use a Gen Z word). It worked (ha). Thusly
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Blogger Lars Wirzenius asked followers last year what they liked and disliked about email. He then summarized those email likes and dislikes here. The dislikes about email were typical and, in my opinion, represent several myths about email that disgorge into modern discussions about productivity and communication. These knee-jerk prima facie reactions to using email are not invalid
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