What a shit article.
There are well known problems with email, but everything that’s been proposed as a replacement is far far worse.
Apparently we should all jump to some proprietary enshittified replacement because the author can’t figure out the right way to use BCC.
I need email at work because otherwise I would have to have a direct conversation with numerous people whom I would rather not speak to.
This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.
I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?
I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.
The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.
“Email clients?” … boom! ;)
So, what’s the successor? How do we send and receive electronic letters then?
(Edit: Genuine question…)
None of these examples are problems caused by email itself.
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to victims of the Westminster “honeytrap” scandal after it accidentally sent an email which named all of them.
This could have just as easily been a social media post or a newspaper publication.
sent an email newsletter with all patient email addresses in the ‘To’ field, rather than the ‘Bcc’ field
This is caused by not understanding the tech just as much as they described. Sure, carbon copies are antiquated and hardly used. With those stakes, the newsletter should be sent using a managed process, not a human. Using some kind of proprietary delivery system has its own risks. I wouldn’t want a specific HIV app on my phone to identify myself, and not everyone even uses smart phones.
Search any social network at any time of the year and you’ll find people kvetching about its inadequacies.
Friendly reminder to use anything other than email if you need to have a conversation between multiple people that you have any hope in following.
You can literally find people bitching about anything. Look into why people hate Tom Hanks. Snarky complaints on social media are not great points
Email is getting out of hand and people use it in suboptimal ways.
Not everyone meditates on the most optimum way to use a tech product. You ever watch someone open Chrome, type Google in the unibar, locate the search field, and then type a url? I have watched techs paid much more than I do this same thing.
I am only now realizing that some … [People] do not understand the concept of sending a file via email.
Again, everyone needs to learn it. I have met so many people afraid of their computer that this does not surprise me.
