Email is deadly
Email – there isn’t much that has to be explained. It is like mail except it is electronic, with inboxes, outboxes, junk, thrash and more.
No matter how complicated email get since it was conceived in the 1970s, it is still about sending and receiving messages online. After almost 40 years in existence, email still hasn’t learnt its lesson and carries plenty of kinks.
Lacking security
With all the high profile email hacks happening fresh in our memory, it is apparent that email is not safe at all. The best you can do is to backup email (http://www.dropmyemail.com) to prevent data loss. You cannot stop the hack, you can only make it less damaging.
Useless junk filters
Even with the best filters keywords, there is no way to keep junk out without losing desired emails. Users can try to not give a designated junk email addresses that is separate from their main ones. Though this is also not very effective.
Hidden viruses
Just clicking on an email can download a new virus to your computer. There is little to no way of preventing this. A virus scan should help but it can’t catch everything.
Delivery un-guaranteed
Email may or may not get there. How many times have you heard someone ask you if you got his or her email? There are some services where recipients have to confirm receipt of the email, which informs the sender it has reached it intended destination.
Un-real time
It is not instantaneous where everyone is now constantly online – information is not exchanged fast enough. Unless you are just staring at your inboxes every second.
These are just some of the many flaws that in inherent in email. Why hasn’t anyone fixed them? Why is it still so popular? With social media nipping at its heels, why hasn’t it been replaced entirely?
Simply put, email has permeated the Internet’s existence.
1. Everyone is on email
Have you ever heard of someone who says, “I don’t have email?”
Everybody connected to the Internet, about 2.4 billion people according to Internet World Stats, have email. And they send 294 billion of it daily. With every Internet user having more than one email address, the best way to reach your target audience is at times, still through john.doe@name.com
2. Everything requires email registration
From social media to online buying, your log-in is usually an email address. Most people have 1 or 2 email addresses that they frequently check and use as the log-in.
3. Email is hard to ignore
Social media content is a constant stream of data that is usually ignored if missed. However, when an email pops up, it demands your attention. Until it is read, the number above your inbox logo will just keep blinking and growing.
4. Legitimacy of email
Email is the soft-copy that records conversations. It is legal and recognized unequivocally in court. Corporate business email (http://business.dropmyemail.com) is considered hard evidence.
While there is no agenda in pushing email forward like the way various forms of social media does, there is still nothing quite like it. As the reigning big brother of Internet communications, there is no replacing it. Instead, the focus should be trying to make it better.
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