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Originally Posted by Blossom
Well for one you would need their email address. If I ask for it they would just say leave me a message on Facebook. One thing I hate about email is getting a bulk email. Nothing irritates me more and if you do a BBC it will go into your spam box.  On Facebook you post one message and everyone on your friends list sees it. |
But this thing with everyone on your friends list seeing what you post is like writing an email with that list on BCC.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Because that is more intrusive. Skype disturbs people and do not let them communicate when they want. Email is for some people more intrusive in the way that they think they have to answer. And for younger people it is something they do not use or do not use regularly so it can be used for communication.
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You can be "invisible" on Skype. If someone wants to talk to you they can just ask if you are there, or to leave a message when you get back to your computer. Having applied for jobs by email, I can tell you that people don't think that they have to answer. And people definitely don't think that they have to answer immediately.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Also it does not work to communicate with 200 people.
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It was pretty fun to talk to my family at Easter, because I couldn't visit them, but I could visit a cousin that lives in a country close to the one I live in, so I know that Skype can be a very nice way of communicating with large groups of people. And businesses are capable of using email for communication between hundreds of people.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Isn't it obvious? Email in email to one person it to me trivially more personal than a status update on Facebook that people can choose to read if they want.
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You can choose not to read emails. Is it as easy to ignore something that people write on your wall?