“I will no longer be accepting E-mail," the 48-year-old Medina, who counts Mariah Carey and Tyra Banks among his clients, announced the other day. "If it's important, call me. I don't do E-mail."Benny Media is certainly on to something, but I honestly don’t think I would manage not doing emails. It’s the best tool of communication since Bell invented the phone. Maybe even better than the phone since you get to decide when to read and reply. It’s not like a phone, which can interrupt you at the most inconvenient times. I agree on that an email can’t communicate a feeling or an emotion. Many mistakes and misunderstandings would probably never had happened if the person we were about to send the email to could see us or hear the tone of voice we are using. But in this case I think convenience wins over feelings and emotions.
"I'm not making a stand against E-mail, I'm making a stand for the way I like to communicate. Generally, E-mail ends up as a form of communication that can go completely unanswered, with people thinking they've followed up on an outstanding issue when they haven't, and it's bad at communicating a feeling or an emotion.
Email is seen as very quick way of communication and often it seems like we all forget how to write a proper message. We use abbreviations without reflecting on if the receiver knows what it means. We sometimes type a whole message just using lowercase letters. And the worse things of all we don’t hyphenate or punctuate correctly. A lot would be won if we just thought one more time before hitting that send button.
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