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This for Patricia T O'Conner

In high school Latin class one of Cicero's orations against Cataline.

Cicero says words to this effect:

I will not take up your time mentioning this but ..."

He proceeds to spell out the activities he just said he would not montion.

I cannot find this in a dictionary.

Help.

Not everyone texts or is glued to their cell phone. There will be a backlash to all of this. Sooner then later when public outcry becomes louder then cell phone company lobbyists, cell phones used for speaking and texting will become illegal to use in every public and private place that cigarettes are illegal to smoke in and at today.

I cant believe Leonard Lopate didnt speak one word about using skype. I think the mention of using it would more or less have ended that conversation aswell as book sales.

Me thinks he just wanted to write a controversial book, or at least attempt to create controversy!

Anyone receiving over 200 emails a day has NOT YET LEARNED TO PROPERLY USE THE JUNK MAIL FILTER!!

I agree completely with John-Paul G [2] - email has enabled to cover myself at work on numerous occasions because I have absolutely everything in writing - it has also spared me a great deal of pointless conversation. The social impact, now, that may be another story.

I find that e-mail can also be very uncivil and rude. When someone writes to me with a question or favor, I appreciate getting a quick reply from them, even just to say 'thanks.' Just as I would expect when I help someone or answer a question from them face to face or in a telephone call. I'm always amazed by how often I don't get a simple 'thank you'. And sometimes when I send one to someone else.....I wonder if they appreciate it....or if they experience the act of opening and reading it as another chore......

Inbox Zero. Plain and simple. http://inboxzero.com/

(ps on his point i agree fully w #2, of course. for those interacting w obfuscators, email is the "paper trail" miracle).

Email, like forums, transforms the other person into an impersonal 'Customer Service' and gives the illusion that the other person MUST answer you back, correctly and swiftly. And sometimes Emails from friends make you feel like you work for them.

It is because of this that I stopped participating in online help forums. People were just typing demands as if I was WORKING for them instead of doing it for pleasure of helping. And I tell my friends that if you REALLY need to talk to me-- you know my Phone #. If you Don't know my Tel #, well there you are. Because from Friday afternoon, the Email Inbox will be Untouched.

Is he asserting that the actual world is somehow superior to the virtual or a parallel world?

if so please defend this assertion. right now it's the elephant in the room.

The company I used to work at was a pain with the email. Everything had to be in email. We would have meetings and then we would have send an email to everyone that was at the meeting "confirming" everything that was just discussed in the meeting! I even worked at another company where my boss told me that if I was going to give paperwork to someone in another department I also needed to send them an email that I was going to or already did and copy their superior, her and whatever other subordinates! The boss at the last job always said that if it is not in email then it did not happen.

I must disagree with this guy. Sounds like maybe he has received too many 'Dear John' type emails.
This trend of writing, texting and always on the phone may be annoying at times but let's look at the glass half filled. We are all gonna move to the next level through these technologies at some point up ahead.

Technology is an addiction. All mobile communications are the playground for idle minds. Constantly texting and making cel phone calls are usually done by people who can't stand to be still with their own thoughts.

Socrates did not mean writing was evil. He meant that teaching should be taught verbally by someone who understands the lesson and can explain it.
It should not be written down and then read by a student who gets the wrong message without a teacher present.

This is all very very Marshall McCluhan. He suggested that technology would bring us back to the world of tribal man.

He also suggested that reading/writing is so much different than seeing. Is e-mail a hot or cold media?

One big problem of email, texting, etc. is that it has no sense of humor and can easily be misinterpreted.

Technology use like most things in life take discipline...if you are undisciplined in your real life so will you be in the cyber world.

Younger people are no more social. Period.

Thank god for Sabbath observance.
One day each week for:
NO Email
NO TV
No Radio
No phone
Read, commune with family, relax.

You are so off base with this one! Yes the person cooking "eggs downstairs" may have to wait until he gets off work to check email, at the library etc...however he may have internet access via a cell phone. I think you need to broaden your research to include the regular joe's.

I like email because it is on record. This is especially useful when dealing with customer service.

I just ignore many useless work email messages.

NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein spends all of his time at Panel on Education Policy meetings (the one place where the public can address him about the public schools)on his Blackberry, and has for years! You can see it on youtube tapes.

People who immediately react their e-mail are like people who always answer a ringing phone. With caller id, you can choose to let the caller leave a message and respond later. If your first priority is to respond to e-mails and phone calls, you have lost control of your time. The problem is not the medium, it's how you use it --- or let it use you.

Freeman says we should pick up the phone more, but what about those people walking down the street with a cell phone glued to their ears? Technology has devalued silence. Whether email, twitter, blogs, or cell phone, there's too much idle chatter and not enough of the thoughtful contemplation that comes with just being.

200 is the average?! Where does this stat come from?

As the ease at which we communicate becomes easier, the quality of what we communicate diminishes.

Can't remember who said that?

Dave

I disagree, respectfully in the work sense. Email is a permanent record that allows us to keep track of chain of responsibility that verbal communication does not retain. "I don't recall the conversation" can ruin many a time sensitive process.

You will lose the battle and war on this one! We are too far gone to turn back now!