A great article about the role email plays in modern work and life.
Is it true that email "eats away at people's time, a minute at a time... [like] bleeding to death from a thousand pinpricks?"Or is the following description a little more accurate?
"Many people who are addicted to e-mail are more correctly described as addicted to work. Lots of e-mail makes you feel important. E-mail addicts (like me) fear the empty inbox and, strangely, the potential freedom that e-mail provides. A BlackBerry can make you feel accountable at night, but it also lets you say, play golf, while still monitoring any situation that might come up. When business is conducted through e-mail, it shifts the responsibility of actually working off of the physical setting of the office and back onto you. That lack of structure, or the need to provide your own structure, can be uncomfortable. Still, you often find confident people who are immune to e-mail addiction. They just don't understand what the fuss is about. They check e-mail when they need to; they turn it off when they've got stuff to do. It's a tool that serves them. "
Set yourself some boundaries and follow them. Soon email will serve you as it serves many others.
1 comment:
I ABSOLUTELY feel immune to email addiction & cell phone. I LOVE having SO many different means of communications (email, text, im, cell phone, etc). But when I need to I turn it off. I HATE people who complain about the technologies existence as being a burden to modern day life!
-Sam
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