Does anyone agree that emails can often create miscommunication? Have you ever had any problems?
2007-11-21 02:36:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Yes and yes. Written communications (email and chat and txt msging) lack verbal and audible clues that are essential to communication. You can't hear in a person's voice that he's joking, you can't see his smile, so the decidedly one-dimensional text-only medium can frequently fail to be effective. It is also very, nay, completely dependent on the person being able to effectively communicate with the written word; not everyone has that ability leading to further confusion and problems.
2007-11-21 02:40:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. It's a problem when there's alot of people CC'd and it's going back and forth. Also, people tend to use phrases like "make changes the website" without mentioning which website and things like that.
It's perfect for routine requests and saying short messages, there's also alot of advantage to being able to e-mail 200 people rather than call 200 people.
2007-11-21 10:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by lansingstudent09101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep...it's so very EASY for me to FAT FINGER and press SEND before really reading and thinking about, what I said, and how the recipient will interpret. I usually need to write more carefully, to them instead of to me.
2007-11-21 10:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has hard because there is little display of emotion. Phone is better... in person is best.
2007-11-21 10:39:12 · answer #4 · answered by danielrosborne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋