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Yes! Both for personal and professional communication. It is by far the best channel for me. I bemoan all chat-like things for a few reasons: - they don't giv
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Yes! Both for personal and professional communication. It is by far the best channel for me.
I bemoan all chat-like things for a few reasons:
- they don't give space to formulate thoughts well, so they push thus the problem to the other person
- the messages are very short, so it is hard to focus (unlike reading a medium-size email text)
- they expect an instant reply (again, either devastate focus or make it easy to miss an important message)
- there are (too) many such communicators (to name a few: Slack, Discord, Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram); email is just email
- most of them mix crucial communication with noise (by design); I rarely get important information mixed with gossips, jokes and news in professional emails
Of course, I have to use such communicators (as fewer and fewer friends use email), but my preference is to restrict them to things requiring a real-time response rather than making them a default solution.