JOURNAL ENTRY 3: E MAIL

   Electronic mail is a method used for exchanging digital messages from one person to the other one. I have found this topic worth reflecting on because e mail is one of the most important technological developments in our daily lives.

   Sending electronic messages date back to mid-1800s and popularity of e mail has been increasing day by day. In my opinion, e mail affects the quality of our life both negatively and positively. E mail makes people’s life easier in many ways. To begin with, using e mail is beneficial for social life. Communicating with the world gets easy because of e mail. People can contact a lot of people at once. They can correspond with their friends or relatives who live far away. Also, people can create online friendships with chatting. Secondly, using e mail is beneficial for effective use of time since it is quite quick to send or reply to a message. Moreover, People can do their work whenever and wherever they want. For instance, they can even work in travelling. Also, people can reach unlimited documents with a click of a button.

   Despite pros of it, using e mail can make people’s life difficult. Firstly, it can be harmful for people’s social life. If they become addicted to e mail, they can isolate from the real world. Namely, they can prefer chatting to spending their time with their friends or family. Researches indicate that there are more than 11 million people addicted to e mail. They check their e mail more than once an hour. They look at every message which comes in and need to reply the messages instantly. Furthermore, online friendships can be fake ,and so people can be disappointed. Secondly, using email can be harmful to people’s health. For example, doctors say that if people spend too long on their computer, this is bad for their eyes.

   Consequently; e mail is as a tool which has positive and negative effects on people’s life. Unfortunately, like the majority of society, I am addicted to e mail. I check my e mail account more often than I should. I must break this habit.