What is advantages and disadvantages of E-mail?

Question

its my project in computer subject.
the question is:

1.advantages and disadvantages of E-mail
2.what is do and dont's of using E-mail?

pls help me to answer.

Answer 1

Besides what everyone else as said...

Advantage: If you move, you have same address ; If you want to ignore people, you can get a new email address

Disadvantage: Your family can get a hold of you to fast ; your friends send too many letters about things they have told you about 50 times already

Do: Have a back-up email address for junk email (or signing up for websites you use to play games)

Don't: click on any links inside of emails (even if it looks legit. Bad people like to make good looking emails)

Answer 2

Some of the disadvantages are: As we have seen, one of the biggest disadvantages of email is the capability for misunderstanding. Email has some other disadvantages as well. It can be used to talk to more than one person at a time, but the means for doing so can be a bit cumbersome. At its core, email is a one - to - one communication medium. Email requires active participation. You have to check your email to get messages. If you do not check your email, you will never know that somebody has contacted you

Some of the advantages are:

Staff and students can communicate outside of office hours, at anytime convenient to them
Faster than an ordinary mail; messages travel almost instantaneously
Staff and/or students can be in the safety and comfort of their own homes for after classes office hours
Working students, part-time students and students with family responsibilities will be able to 'attend' classes without much inconvenience
Staff can communicate to students relatively easily without losing valuable face-to-face contact time
Cheaper and less intrusive than a telephone call, particularly for a large amount of information

Oh yes.. some possible additional disadvaantages are:

Hardware/software incompatibility may result in garbled messages
The recipient may be unaware of an urgent message's arrival and quick answers may not be forthcoming
Recipient unable to interpret nuances which are easy to communicate when face-to-face

Answer 3

Advantages: faster than paper mail, you can attach text and picture and sometimes even movie files, they don't cost anything

Disadvantages: lots of junk mail and spam, you have to check it weekly or monthly to keep it active, they can sometimes have viruses attached to them

Do keep a list of your contacts in an email address books. Do have a virus detection program that will check for viruses and bugs before any email opens.

Don't open emails from unknown addresses that look suspicious or emails that say you've won something you've never heard of. Also make sure not to include any personal information that you wouldn't want a 3rd party to intercept. Emails aren't completely secure so no last names, social security numbers, driver license numbers, addresses, etc. Don't EVER disclose your passwords to ANYONE in email even if it looks like an official request.

Answer 4

1. Advantages: It is faster than mail. No paper involved. Can have multiple addresses for different subjects.

Disadvantages: It's not secure. They sometimes change rapidly. Lots of spam. Have to remember passwords(sometimes)

2. Do: send only non-confidential information.
Don't: Send confidential information(credit card #, SS#, passwords, etc)

Answer 5

Email is the most efficient method of communication. You can send virtually anything, receive virtually anything and thanks to devices such as the blackberry you can send and receive messages around the entire globe in a matter of minutes. As well as this phenominal speed of communication you can store years of mail on a five inch plastic disk, you don't ever need to loose a letter again. Imagine doing that with paper?

But of course there is the junk and the fraudulent mail which costs virtually nothing to send, people pretending to be someone else and trying to trick your bank account number from you. Sending viruses and offensive words or trying to steal your identity. Policing the internet still falls somewhat short.

Paper may have been slow but it was fast in it's day, that day isn't over yet. Simple communication may have gone over to email but secure mail will remain in paper for some time. You can't send an email registered delivery ....... yet.

Answer 6

advantage: free mail, fast mail, contact distant relatives in minutes, sign up for stuff on the net
disadvantage: can get a virus, spam,

Answer 7

I don't see an email to send you a reply.

I don't know if an email is traceable like a forum post is. It's best to keep several emails at a time. One for your friends and family. One for your cheap friends and those online. And one for business if you want. I hear that it's best to do things on paper if you are worried about the legal side, let's say if something is going to be in dispute. A letter is said to stand up in court better than an email.

Answer 8

1. Advantages: you can send pics, e-cards, and even better, talk to friends.
2.disadvantages:if you give people you dont know, too much info about yourself(Ph #,name, adress,school,etc.)they might try to harm u or your loved ones.

So remember DO talk to friends,DONT talk to strangers or tell them any personal info.