Comments on: Does Email Have A Future? http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/ You'd get more bandwidth out of a sausage Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:31:41 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alan http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Alan Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:25:37 +0000 http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/#comment-9 Unfortunately there is some mixing - I'd have to give 2 MSNs to people who I worked with but already knew *shudder* like Simon. Tried it a while ago it was just a royal pain :) Welcome by the way :) Unfortunately there is some mixing – I’d have to give 2 MSNs to people who I worked with but already knew *shudder* like Simon. Tried it a while ago it was just a royal pain :)

Welcome by the way :)

]]> By: daniel_owen_uk http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/comment-page-1/#comment-8 daniel_owen_uk Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:00:42 +0000 http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/#comment-8 Why not have more than one account? A work account and friends account? Like the telephone, email & IM are only as good as you make them, if you give everyone your account information then they can generally get in touch/bother you whenever they see fit. The way to deal with IM is the same way you should deal with Spam, restrict access. Why not have more than one account? A work account and friends account?

Like the telephone, email & IM are only as good as you make them, if you give everyone your account information then they can generally get in touch/bother you whenever they see fit.

The way to deal with IM is the same way you should deal with Spam, restrict access.

]]> By: Alan http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Alan Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:28:16 +0000 http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/#comment-7 Well done for posting a well thought out reply. I tell you what would be good about MSN, is if you could block entire groups of people. I would love to do that i.e. have a work group and a 'home' group. Block the work group at night. Also my mother does that to me via text message. She's even learned to use wtf lol omg w00t :( Well done for posting a well thought out reply. I tell you what would be good about MSN, is if you could block entire groups of people. I would love to do that i.e. have a work group and a ‘home’ group. Block the work group at night.

Also my mother does that to me via text message. She’s even learned to use wtf lol omg w00t :(

]]> By: Matt http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Matt Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:24:09 +0000 http://3dpixel.net/blog/does-email-have-a-future/#comment-6 There really doesn't seem to be a perfect way to communicate, as you say. I guess really telephone with an answerphone is probably the most rounded. You can speak immediately as well as leave a message if the target is busy. My problem with this method is that I don't like talking on phones. I just find it weird. Always have and probably always will. I find email works but it had issues. One is spam. I don't get a lot on my main account but I have had to pretty much abandon another due to it. On top of unsolicited spam, there is also the crap that friends decide to send you. "Here's something I found funny", "Send this to 50 people or you die at midnight", etc. There is also the problem of changing ISP. I use googlemail so whoever I have supplying my interweb makes no difference but I know many people who use their Virgin.net address or their BTopenworld address. It just adds a restriction when moving around. Advantages are that it is asynchronous. The only problem with that is that sometimes you really want to know your message has got through now, or hasn't, and not everyone sends delivery reports. Next up, instant chat including IRC. This is possibly the worst thing ever invented. To quote a message I sent to Alan, "It blows". As said above, you are advertised online by having msn open and people can just blast messages at you. Maybe it's only one person you want to talk to, but logging in advertises your online status to the whole of your friend list, then you look bad when you ignore everyone that wants to talk to you. I choose not to login to MSN now due to this. I often have work to do and when MSN is open I just get people wanting to talk and distract me. Also, sometimes I just don't want to talk but XP by default logs you into MSN. I've reversed that but XP just wants you to be online. Even worse is that they put the damn thing on the XBox. In itself not a problem but why does everyone want to talk to you when you're in the middle of a game and can only type using a joystick? One slightly good thing now with MSN, though, is that they seem to have enabled asynchronous communication. You can now send a message to a friend who is not online and they get it when they are. IRC has the problem that it goes through waves. You have friends one year, they move on the following year. It's just not stable. Social sites... Spawn of the devil tbh. I open my facebook account on my mobile whenever I get out of work to check who's messaged me, and I don't know why. It's just silly. Often it's just a poke or some mundane message. It's essentially the same as that friend spam I spoke about earlier in email but without the actual emails you want. It is pure spam. Another form of communication is text messaging. This is so quick and easy. I use this loads. I just get annoyed with people like my mum. She's a writer and a chairwoman of a writer's circle yet she writes texts like "wen r we guna c u 2?". Seriously, Magnum .45 is loaded and will be used... The Internet is weird though. I've sort of known Alan and Simon (of this site, dunno if it says anywhere) for about 3 years now I guess, yet I've never actually spoken to Alan and I've never met either of them. It's such a strange concept to know someone but not know them. As for the best communication, dunno. See? I'm no help :D There really doesn’t seem to be a perfect way to communicate, as you say. I guess really telephone with an answerphone is probably the most rounded. You can speak immediately as well as leave a message if the target is busy. My problem with this method is that I don’t like talking on phones. I just find it weird. Always have and probably always will.

I find email works but it had issues. One is spam. I don’t get a lot on my main account but I have had to pretty much abandon another due to it. On top of unsolicited spam, there is also the crap that friends decide to send you. “Here’s something I found funny”, “Send this to 50 people or you die at midnight”, etc.
There is also the problem of changing ISP. I use googlemail so whoever I have supplying my interweb makes no difference but I know many people who use their Virgin.net address or their BTopenworld address. It just adds a restriction when moving around.
Advantages are that it is asynchronous. The only problem with that is that sometimes you really want to know your message has got through now, or hasn’t, and not everyone sends delivery reports.

Next up, instant chat including IRC. This is possibly the worst thing ever invented. To quote a message I sent to Alan, “It blows”. As said above, you are advertised online by having msn open and people can just blast messages at you. Maybe it’s only one person you want to talk to, but logging in advertises your online status to the whole of your friend list, then you look bad when you ignore everyone that wants to talk to you. I choose not to login to MSN now due to this. I often have work to do and when MSN is open I just get people wanting to talk and distract me. Also, sometimes I just don’t want to talk but XP by default logs you into MSN. I’ve reversed that but XP just wants you to be online. Even worse is that they put the damn thing on the XBox. In itself not a problem but why does everyone want to talk to you when you’re in the middle of a game and can only type using a joystick? One slightly good thing now with MSN, though, is that they seem to have enabled asynchronous communication. You can now send a message to a friend who is not online and they get it when they are. IRC has the problem that it goes through waves. You have friends one year, they move on the following year. It’s just not stable.

Social sites… Spawn of the devil tbh. I open my facebook account on my mobile whenever I get out of work to check who’s messaged me, and I don’t know why. It’s just silly. Often it’s just a poke or some mundane message. It’s essentially the same as that friend spam I spoke about earlier in email but without the actual emails you want. It is pure spam.

Another form of communication is text messaging. This is so quick and easy. I use this loads. I just get annoyed with people like my mum. She’s a writer and a chairwoman of a writer’s circle yet she writes texts like “wen r we guna c u 2?”. Seriously, Magnum .45 is loaded and will be used…

The Internet is weird though. I’ve sort of known Alan and Simon (of this site, dunno if it says anywhere) for about 3 years now I guess, yet I’ve never actually spoken to Alan and I’ve never met either of them. It’s such a strange concept to know someone but not know them.

As for the best communication, dunno.
See? I’m no help :D

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