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> Good rule for email is, treat writing email as if you're speaking publicly. ...and if you treat it that way, then it's not a "horrible medium" (for "publicly
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> Good rule for email is, treat writing email as if you're speaking publicly.
...and if you treat it that way, then it's not a "horrible medium" (for "publicly", I would prefer to substitute "on the record").
If you don't like email, that's cool; there are plenty of other messaging services you can use instead. But:
- Your bank doesn't use them
- Your friends don't use them
- They are usually proprietary and opaque
- You might lose your account, with no recourse
Email is the universal baseline, the single communications channel that nearly everyone has access to.
- TillE 4y ago> - Your friends don't use them Nobody under like 40 uses email for personal communication. Yeah it's a legacy medium for stuff like your bank, maybe it's the least terrible option for B2B communication, but email has largely been replaced already.
- denton-scratch 4y agoIt's the default: you need an email to make all those other accounts. Everyone has an email (assuming they have internet at all). Not everyone has a goofacetwat account, or whatever the newest thing is.