9/9/2010 Email

What is Email?

Electronic-Mail.

Email is a system to send mail to other people via the internet. Due to the mail being send via the internet, is much faster than normal mail.

Advantages of Email?

Email is much fast, cheaper and has large limits to the amount of info, which can be sent. Files, which can be sent via email, can be images, videos, audio files, hyperlinks and many different resources that can be awkward to sent via normal mail. As the mail is immediately sent to the receiver, less time can be wasted for talking via mail. This makes the entire situation nicer and can be very good for talking to people in different time zones.

Disadvantages of Email

Junk email is a very bad problem with email. these often clutter up your inbox and makes the use of emails less enjoyable. However, this can be countered with spam blockers, extra organisation methods (E.g. Starred, Filters etc.) and blocking the email addresses altogether. Viruses are also very common in spam attatchments. These often damage your computer and can cost lots of money as well as a variety of ways to con you and steal your identity. Due to a large amount of junk mail, organizations can be overloaded with the email and can cause emaails to crash and costs money to have a large storage area for the large amount of mail. This also stops the organization from being well organised and can stop an organization from growing and developing from the problem.

Interesting Story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11248877

G-mail

G-mail view

• Gmail priority inbox finds important emails and sorts them for you. Less time wasted on junk mail. Often placed at the top of the list. Continuation of other reason i stated.
• Star feature puts folders in a different folder to read on another date. Organisation.
• Avoids infomation overload and orders mail. Organisation.
• Works out your patterns and orders the emails accordingly.
• Replying to messages helps to organise the more important messages.
• Can also manually change the prioritisation.
• Can only get better over time to help learn your habbits.
• Very good for organisation and helps make the use of emails more enjoyable and faster.
• Large amount of actions.
• Filters to help organise emails from certain people to automatically delete, star or sort.
• Goggle chat at the same time.
• Use microphones + headphones
• Buzz (google's version of a social network)