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Mistakes were madeBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 3:59pm
Can someone tell my work inbox that? I spend most days deleting e-mails after I get the warning from Outlook that my inbox is almost full.
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  Medieval KnievelMistakes were made
  7/12/15 4:03pm
  How old are you, anyway? I conduct all of my important business exclusively by sext.
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  EldritchMistakes were made
  7/12/15 4:08pm
  At least you’re not stuck using LotusNotes at work.
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Jerry-NetherlandBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:22pm
“Nobody writes emails anymore!” isn’t in there because that’s not the thesis of the article. The message is that e-mails - like all other communication - are getting shorter, but no less frequent. Personally, in light of surveillance and data-mining*, I’ve considered returning to snail mail for personal correspondence that isn’t particularly time-sensitive. If only my penmanship looked more like Times New Roman! Alas, it doesn’t, and so I’ll continue with e-mail. BTW, those of us who don’t want facebook to own our personal photos still send them to friends as e-mail attachments (or text messages).

*I recently wrote an e-mail to a friend who is on g-mail (I’m onYahoo). I casually mentioned a consumer product in the text of this personal e-mail, and within hours - and for the next week - I had ads popping up for this product wherever I went online. This only happened with Google’s data mining of personal e-mail (never happened with yahoo or other services). It felt seriously creepy.
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  ButbutbutJerry-Netherland
  7/12/15 5:24pm
  I remember ditto machine fumes. Remember fax machines wiped out messengers? Scanners and email have wiped out fax machines. I dropped my internet/cable/phone package, because of Apple TV, Airplay and VOIP. New phone lines are not landlines, but phone over cable connection.
  
  I wouldn’t mind finding a more efficient way to send specific files (such as pdf) than email.
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  Jerry-NetherlandButbutbut
  7/12/15 5:29pm
  Something doesn’t add up here....How do you have a VOIP without a cable line? High speed mobile data with enough capacity to accommodate all the uses you describe (streaming TV, Voip, and internet) is costlier than a cable or Uverse broadband line.
  
  ETA: Ditto fumes were my original dopamine trigger!
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slipdiscoBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:01pm
God, I wrote something that long and personal as late as a year ago. Now that I am shaming myself, I may as well mention that I still use @yahoo.com.
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  Armageddon T. Thunderbirdslipdisco
  7/12/15 4:20pm
  The oldest thing I own is my @hotmail.com account.
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  burningsensationslipdisco
  7/12/15 4:30pm
  Can someone explain to me why using @yahoo.com is embarrassing? It’s functional, so who cares?
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PopChipsBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:15pm
Technological advances are great but I sure do miss the damp feel and smell of those purple ink copies from the 1970s. My best year of elementary school was fifth grade because I got to work in the office for an hour each day and could spend the entire 60 minutes inhaling those ditto machine fumes.
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capt_weasleBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:05pm
I hope emails never go away. I hate talking over the phone and business can’t be done over text. Email is perfect for the “I need to fromulate my response ahead of time” crowd.
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  Kaidogcapt_weasle
  7/13/15 7:50am
  Oh my god, me too. Even when I was a teenager.
  
  I enjoy funny conversation with friends in person, but there’s something about the phone that makes me nuts.
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UmmYeahOkBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 7:57pm
I still communicate via email daily with friends and family, fuck Facebook! I still use my aol address, because why not? I got it in 1997. There’s no reason to make everyone email a gmail one.
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pleasestopthispopupBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:30pm
what the fuck is a 35 year old doing that he doesn’t understand what email is used for?

it’s not used to send letters like in nineteen tickity two.

this guy needs a job
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LadyologyBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:07pm
I do NOT want patients texting me. Christ.
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  Billy RuffianLadyology
  7/12/15 5:09pm
  There is no “Out of office” option for texts. Nothing like 8am first-day-of-vacation texts from a superior one department over and two levels up.
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  TayTayTrutherLadyology
  7/12/15 6:23pm
  Doc can u look at dis bump n my thigh plz? [pic attached] kthnx
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phunkshunBrendan O'Connor
7/12/15 6:12pm
Ahh, this fucking argument again.
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Chuck E.Brendan O'Connor
7/12/15 4:04pm
Emails are still good for official correspondence, much as snail mail is (or was). So let’s finally do the smart thing:

Assign a cost to send an email. Let’s make it 1 cent per email (billed by nuber of recipients). And, if your total bill is less than $5/ year, the amount is forgiven. The proceeds are given to the USPS (other other official agency around the world). It becomes a small cost for businesses, a larger (yet legitimate) cost for reputable advertisers, and a cease-and-decist for spammers.
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  Burndy Burndy BurnChuck E.
  7/12/15 4:29pm
  But that way lies the slippery slope to paying for a civilized society. No thanks.
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  52ndstateChuck E.
  7/12/15 4:34pm
  It’s a pleasant fantasy to charge for e-mail, but it wouldn’t take long for the whole system to be bypassed/subverted just like things like iMessage and WhatsApp work around the SMS system.
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