Question 1: What are the advantages and disadvantages of an e-mail?
Advantages
- Email is a faster and more efficient channelthan regular mail (sometimes referred to as snail mail). Most messages reach anywhere in the world within minutes of being sent.
- It saves paper
- It can be send at any convenient time
- A message can be written and edited quickly by several people before it is sent
- It can be send to different receivers at the same time
- Email can be stored and sent at off-peak telephone rates
Disadvantages
- It ca be difficult to distinguish between casual and formal messages because of their similar layout
- There may be a time lag if the receiver does not read their email for a few days.
- The system is inaccessible to those who are computer illiterate or not online.
- Its contents may reappear later in a variety of printed forms.
- It lack nonverbal communication cues to add meaning
- It can be overused