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Subject:Re[2]: E-mail: How does it affect our work? From:Gwen Barnes <gwen -dot- barnes -at- MUSTANG -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 22 Sep 1995 15:08:41 GMT
-> > I feel that E-MAIL has made life a lot more impersonal. This is BAD
-> > for society, BAD for our kids, but nevertheless, FUN to play with.
-> I feel just the opposite. I've developed personal relationships online that I
-> enjoy very much and have done a much better job of communicating with distant
-> family and friends since e-mail became available. I'm not exactly
phonephobic,
<uhh uhhh mmeee mmeeee uuuhh uhhhh > I have friends around the world
thanks to email, many of whom I've since met in person, and one of whom
I actually married. If not for email I'd be doing god knows what,
because of it I'm one of the happiest people I know.
Email is a novelty for now, but it is going to be as ordinary and
commonplace as the telephone and the letter before long.
