Friday, 14 September 2012

Email Today


With Millions of people everyday using e-mail technology to communicate around the world, it would seem that e-mail is here to stay, or is it? Statistics show that consumer e-mails are increasing every year. However, the same cannot be said for corporate and business e-mails, which only have a low increase every year. In addition to these points, 90% of emails sent every year are classed as spam, meaning that only around 9 trillion e-mails sent are ‘real’ compared to 90 trillion e-mails sent in total every year. Therefore, the e-mail statistics are not as impressive as they would first seem to be.

In comparison with the first point made, other forms of communication are also popular with many people from all across the world. One example is from an Independent online article stating that texting is now the most popular form of communication in Britain today. Texting in Britain is apparently more popular than phone calls, verbal conversations, social networking and e-mailing. The technology advance of the mobile phone and the smart phone has increased rapidly so that many websites can be accessed using a smart phone. Because of this, people can easily text instead of using a computer or laptop to use e-mail. The usage of e-mail and texting has also had an affect against the postal service as well. Because of the increase of e-mails and texts, the number of letters being sent every year has dropped and the postal services have had to increase certain prices (stamps, etc…) to make a profit.

Overall, the e-mail is still a very popular form of communication today. However, as technology advances and becomes more accessible to the world’s population, the e-mail may decrease in usage and popularity. Although this may happen in the future, the ‘end’ of e-mail technology may take a long time as millions use e-mail every day. While the e-mail is decreasing in usage, smart phones and text usage will inevitably increase greatly in popularity, accessibility and use.

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