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Email is low and IM is high latency? Seems backwards.
by swaits 16y ago
Email is low and IM is high latency? Seems backwards.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoI agree, but that having been said, my email gets to me faster than either IM or SMS nowadays with Gmail's push.
- joe_the_user 16y agoRoughly speaking... Email is "high reliability" (as high as anything today). IM is "low reliability" (it's not expected that you be respond to an initial chat). I'm actually thinking that Facebook has "really stepped in it" by now making an effort to "be everything". It's more acceptable for Facebook messages and invites to be easily ignorable when you have other ways to contact people. But if you're not seventeen and you want your Facebook page to be everything, there will be some hard problems to solve (assuming you have a job OR customers, you'll want offer pretty reliable ways for them to get in touch).
- Terretta 16y agoSorry, I'd written something else and edited, and didn't fix those. Yes, you're right, of course. I meant email is high latency, SMS medium latency, and IM low latency. In an earlier edit I'd used the word urgency, as in IM is high urgency.