I work in an environment where there are PCs and workstations all over the place and emails are just a fact of life.
I am a very sceptical about the way emails have "improved" the working environment and I have made an interesting observation.
Most people will carefully write an email and check the spelling punctuation etc, then alter and edit it, then read it AGAIN, then finally hit the send button.
I am fascinated to note how many people will then check that the email is in the "sent" box, open it and then RE -READ the same email.
When we receive an email it's a different matter. We seem to skim over the words, looking for the juicy bits and can generally get the meaning of it in less than 10 seconds.
But this method of reading documents is inherently flawed, and leads to people's having deficient attention spans.
2007-01-29
07:00:58
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Not Ecky Boy
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