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E-Mail Miscommunication: Blaming the Medium

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2006 at 11:51 pm and is filed under Rants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Dursin says:
    6/6/2006 at 4:17 pm

    Well said, Jay. I know we’ve had this discussion before. I think that people do read into things in e-mail, and they do blame the medium itself, but they are pretty much scape-goating. But I must say, I hate emoticons, too. To me, they are a little childish and shouldn’t be necessary if people would just stop and think before they react.

  2. Jay says:
    6/16/2006 at 7:12 am

    Dursin:

    That’s your choice. To me, going on the Internet and refusing to use emoticons (an accepted form of communication that predates your presence there*) is similar to entering a house in Japan ignoring the tradition of removing your outdoor shoes.

    * If you were online pre emoticons, feel free to disregard this.

  3. Emie says:
    3/6/2009 at 7:45 pm

    You might want to check your spelling, I almost use your article for my short essay and presentation as oe of my sources, but I found that there are a few misspelled words.

    Thanks.

    Emie