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º "Is e-mail a blessing or a curse?" How would you answer this question yourself?
º Leonard describes the "Devil´s bargain". Can you think of another form of technology that has resulted in society´s gaining and losing something at the same time? Discuss
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I personally think that e-mail is a blessing.In my case, for example, it helps me to keep in touch with my aunts and cousins from BsAs. We send each other mails almost every day,with news or photos. I think e-mail facilitates a lot of things, it´s quik and cheap. Of couse, it depends on the way each one uses it. I don´t find much problem with that because I do not consider myself an obsses person with this kind of things. As I said before, I only use it to mantaine my relationship with parteners from other places.I think it´s a curse when the person that uses it, does it in the wrong way. If you get obsess with your mails and all you do is be in front of the screen I have no doubt it´s a curse.People like that sometimes forget what the important things are and instead of spent their time with their family or friends they waste it in front of that dumb computer.
The primitive e-mailing system, which was primarily destined to internal communication in large companies, has now developed into a much wider service in which to rely when in need to keep in touch with people you don’t frequent regularly, such as a relative or maybe a friend.
Certainly, email has made our lives easier, for we can instantly communicate with anyone, no matter where that person is. Personally, email has contributed to the transfer of massive information from school to home in a more efficient way, instead of carrying, for example, a heavy book. It also makes the communication with people I don’t get to see every day easier, not to mention the quick way in which to share information, such as pictures or the so called “chain messages” with your contacts, staying informed at the same time.
What is arguable about email, is mainly the loss of personal and verbal interaction with others. Not only the opportunities but also the need to communicate with each other as our grandparents did, are getting lost. Even so, it is a fact that email can be used as a shield where people hide to avoid the face to face talk, because they feel safer and freer to say anything they wouldn’t in a conventional conversation. It is also true that many times, things said via email or instant messenger can be misunderstood as an aggression or an offense, which leads to think whether it was better to wait until the next morning and solve a problem verbally or not.
Despite being a tool in which to evade verbal conversation or where a misunderstanding can take place, the great help email provides when used wisely, is incomparable. Jeff Calloway, a blog writer, exposes in his website: “I would not be as productive and would not be in touch with the world like I am if it weren’t for email”, a phrase which I think, pretty much summarizes my point of view in favor of emailing, considering it a blessing more than a curse.
In my opinion e-mail is a blessing.Personally i think its one of the biggest inventions created by humans, because it helps us in so many aspects that we cant analise them all.For example, in a personal case i have family in foreing countries like USA, Korea or even in Buenos Aires.Comunication through phones is very expensive, becoming a limited source but with e-mail i can comunicate with them as many times as i want and its considerably cheaper than long distance phone calls, although the answer may not be espontaneous i think its the safest and fastest way of communicating this days.
As i said before e-mail is very usefull but it can generate obsession like for example those famouse chains that everyone sends or those persons that love to add people to their accounts without considering if they are people they know or not making them easy target for dangerous people, this obsession with e-mail makes them stay in the computer without studing, working or even having fun with friends, this obsession became a problem that can be compared with smoking(in the aspect that smoking becomes an addiction which is known by the affected person but its very hard to leave).
As well as many other thing, e-mail becomes a good or bad tool depending on the person thats using it.All we can do is taking the greatest advantage of e-mail as posible without falling into an obsession that would be almost imposible to leave, killing us like cigarettes in many other aspect principally in the social one.
E-mail is a magnificant tool made for doing ours lives easier. Like every new technology, it has it’s pros and cons. But if we consider only it’s advantages, there are so much and useful that we do not even have to think about the desadvantajes.
E-mail is a real practical way to communicate to people, especially because it’s instant communication , that means that the other person recives what you send in a matter of seconds, not mattering the place in the world, nor distance. This can take you off a hurry. Also save time, in comparison with letters that you have to wait sometimes days or weeks to recieve them, if you recieve them.
This is very useful to send works, you can have them immediately, do some correction if it’s necessary and send them back.
Another advantage of it is that you can send the same E-mail to many people at the same time and it’s cheaper.
You can check your e-mail inbox everwhere, you do not need to be at home or at the office, and this is a huge advantage.
Despite of all this, there are some other things to consider , like e-mails are easier to forge and corrupt, or that because of this face to face communication is beggining to loose. But I think that it depends on the way you use it and take advantage of it, because e-mail is a blessing.
Once the forest was full of animals for us to hunt, the soil was fertile enough for growing crops, the sun was the root of life and light, and the Earth was the first choice of home. Today, everything seems to be so contradictory, hunting has become a sport to show the superiority of human beings, scientists continue making research on products to make plants grow better and faster, pharmacies are piled up of products saying ‘don’t let the sun burn your skin’, and our home is no longer giving us protection and security.
When has all this started? If we’ve got a time vehicle, we should tell him to carry us to the moment when the first Industrial Revolution was held. It was the first time we could see dark toxic smokes in the air, vapor coming out from machines, and people moving on what were so called bicycles. Everything seemed to be magical, but they weren’t, they were product of our creativity and intelligence. Later on, streets were filled with cars, food was cooked in a box with high temperature, entertainment was just beyond a screen, and today we have in hand one of our greatest creations, the internet. What has been so unreachable in the past is today within a miles from our hands.
Beyond doubt, our lives conditions have improved exponentially during the last years. We can live longer, we eat more delicious and tasteful food, we can visit places far away from where we are, and we can get connected with friends and have the latest news in an instantaneously way. However, gradually, we are loosing our beautiful home, the Earth. Each time we invent a new product, we cause a new and worst damage; if we compare to years ago, we will see that the quantity of natural disasters have increased notoriously in the last years. In addition to this, we are also risking our health as new diseases have appeared dramatically.
Speed, comfort and facility mark the way we live today. What’s more, each time new things appeared, new necessities arise too; the difference is that the benefits are measurable, and the damages are irreparable. In this case, each time the technology increases, a portion of our nature misses.
E- mail and Instant Messaging is without question a blessing. Despite all the junk that fills our in boxes every day. And publicity is everywhere on the TV, the streets, even on the phone, so there is no real escape to it and you can't think of junk mail as a curse, publicity is a curse, everywhere. Even though, some of that junk is useful sometimes, for example the mails that facebook constantly sends you are useful, but some people may get tired of reciving 25 notifications every day, but they are actually useful. Plus the benefits e-mail has, staying in contact with people despite the distances or maybe you don't have time to speak with someone because of school or work and the only time you meet with that person is when you are both logged in to an IM or e-mail if your times don't match. In my opinion e-mail and instant messaging are like windows to the outside world, for example, when I am not with my friends and I am at home as everybody else I log in and I can meet with almost every one I want to. The phone had a similar use some years ago but somehow it doesn't feel the same talking on the phone and chatting online. Of course real human contact is way better than e-mailing but you have to accept that is more practical sometimes, for example at party or in a reunion you can't talk to 5 or 6 different people at the same time, talking about totally different things even though you are in that exactly same place at the same time.
Also e-mail and instant messaging have got better with the years thanks to technological developments, to a point where you can share files, music, pictures, play games and if both the person with whom you are talking to and you, have web cams and/or microphones, you can see that person or hear his or her voice.
E-mail is a blessing, you will only feel it as curse if you don't know how to use it, as everything else.
The e-mailing has tow differnt faces.
On the one hand, it's a wonderfull way of communication, it's cheep, fast and a confortable way of communication. By confortable I mean that you can write to who ever you want, like for example a long distance friend or familiar, or for a job apply; and it could be formal as informal the way you write.
For example, when I was in the USA the only way to contact my family was via e-mail, as the telephone wasn't always available or you couldn't communicate because of the different times.
An other positive thing about the e-mailing is that is instant and it's saved at an income page. This mean that you dont have to be online to recive o write some messages.
But, on the other hand, the e-mailing is a dangerous main of communication. You have lots of information in your profile that anyone can know who you are and what do you like. And also that you don't always know who are you talking to, because the other person can log in with an account that isn't his or her's and can chat with you saying he is your friend, and this is an other way of having information of yours.
The e-mailing it's also a bad influence for writing. The way you write an e-mail is as informal as a instant message. The writing is
about to chage because of his bad manners.
So, in my opinion, the e-mailing has positive and negative aspects and cannot be qualified as a bless or a curse. Each one may qualify this by the way they use it.
Letters and telegrahms,phone calls,e-mails's,text messege's and chatting all ways of communication, which had developed along the years.Considering the objective of the e-mailing, which is to communicate is a a blessing. But unfortunately society has modified it, specially adolescents.
From my point of view, e-mails are wonderful, one of the best things that computers offers.Is really easy, cheao, quick and useful. The only thing you need is a computer that during this times , everyone has one at home. The big problem I can see is that e-mails had been changeing in the last years, in the scence that most of the teens use it just for fun, or to send incorrect data, or unapropiate things.They consider e-mails just to play. When e-mails are much more importante than that.
In mt case, when I was in the U.S. e-mails were essential for my. It was the perfect tool, during my trip because that was the best way to communicate with my family and friends. Considering that long distance calls are really expensive and my family and friends were spending holidays was really dificult to contact them. What I love about e-mailing is that you can write one time the mail and send it to all the friends you want. That was very helpful for me to tell my friends about my amaizing adventures and send some pictures too.
What is importante to emphasize in the privacity you can have.Receiving mails from your friends and that only you can read them.Not like in facebook, for example, that if you write a messege in my wall every one can see what you wrote. With e-mails is only you, the computer and your destinatary.
Nowadays, most or young people, who are in constant touch with computers, waste their valuable time sending and receiving stupid and unsence e-mails. In that case, when people don't know how to use it, what for either when, there is a really course.. otherwise a complete blessing.
I think e-mail is a blessing. Despite it may make us waste some time deleting all the garbage or reading things with no sense at all, or despite it may make us communicate in a colder way with some people, the advantages e-mail gives weigh heavier. Thanks to e-mail we can keep in touch with today's world, and everybody knows that. It's one of the internet more used resources, as it lets us communicate with people that is far away from us, as it can keep us informed about the themes we need or the themes we want and as it can help us to make our work easier and quicklier.
Nowadays I use it a lot to keep in touch with my sisters and friends who live miles away. Also to receive pictures or the latest news of my country, wich is important, at least for me.
If we make the best use of it, we will see ourselves very benefit. If we use it in the wrong way, we will not. Things can give us advantages, but it depends on us. E-mail can be a great weapon for us only if we want that to happen.
As a matter of fact history has shown us that society fears the unknown. Society tends to accustom to a way of living, a routine, so despite how awesome any creation could be at first it tends to be rejected. As E-Mailing is concerned, this way of communication is now a days established in the majority of the peoples routines, we can even say it has taken the lead as the most used way of communication actually. So is E-Mailing a blessing or a curse?
Communicating is inherent to people, since people lived in caverns and ate raw food, communication has been crucial to humanity. Without being able to communicate we would be mere objects with no purpose or existence. As E-mailing has established as the fastest, World Wide way of communicating, consequently it became if not the best one of the bests ways of getting in touch with people.
So concluding E-mailing is unquestionably a blessing. Without it we would still be sending old fashion letters, which took ages to arrive to their destination through the burocratic letter sending system.
When you reflect about something you analyze every portion of it and finally you get a conclusion. As we know, every object or idea has different parts and by analysis we can extract conclusions from each of these parts. But not always conclusions are the same. This is why if we analyze e-mailing, which a part of Internet is, we can’t establish it as definitely a blessing or a curse.
E-mailing is great as it always gives us the chance of being communicated with anyone in the world who was Internet and an email box. Somehow it also gives us the chance to feel more relaxed as we can know how our beloved relatives and friends are. This is the case for the soldiers in Iraq who have access to communicate with their families by Internet. As it gives us communication it also gives opportunities for new opportunities, expanding our limits of growing in an amazing way.
As e – mailing has grown popularity, the distances between different persons in the world has reduced in considerable way. But this distance does not mean that the grade of personal communication also increments. The constant use of e – mailing starts a ``vicious circle`` which bases on three parts: Abuse of e –mailing; Reduce of social capabilities of people; people do not know how to communicate with others in other way than e –mailing and instant messaging; New abuse of e – mailing.
So in this order we can appreciate how the ``blessing`` makes people slower to process their social skills and it becomes a curse, so we could in someway call it a pseudo – blessing as it looks as a great thing but in the long way (product of abusing) damages us.
I think than another technological device which gives us benefits as we lose something is the cellular phone. The cellular phone is just a temptation as everyday we can see on TV how new cell phones appear and look to be better than anyone before but they are the same but with a new color (for example). Cell phones let us to communicate, gives us opportunities, entertainment and comfort but in the long way people spend lots of money only to get new cell phones that keep doing the same: communicate us. So people start putting their cell phones as their first priority and forget everything else. They gain communication but they lose interest of what happens to the others. But of course this only happens when you do not know how and when to use something, as everything else. It is not the same to use than abuse.
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