I have made a quiet survey of my closest friends and have decided that I will no longer be sending personal emails to those of them who have their emails diverted straight to their phones.
Let me tell you why.
You see, Other than when I’m not shooting off a quick response from a meeting environment, I take trouble crafting emails. I word them carefully, I reread them. I put in words and phrases which qualify statements. I number my points if I am putting in place a reasoned response so that people can respond to each individual point.
Then I send this off to friends just waking up who have a cellphone beep on their bedside/ or in the middle of something else they are doing etc who read this email as if its an sms, responds to the general impression it creates in their heads rather than to the actual content and fire from the hip…
I shall no longer be sending emails to phones…
I shall be sending SMSs or calling.
Technology does call for a changed approach to people sometimes…
