People grouse about all the intrusions on their time placed by e-mail, the Internet, cell phones and all the other communications gadgetry of modern times, but I love it.
Conversation at a recent social gathering I attended turned to the topic of information overload. People were grousing about all the intrusions on their time placed by e-mail, the Internet, cell phones and all the other communications gadgetry of modern times. I chimed in with a decidedly minority opinion.
I love it. Yeah, it is a bit much when the e-mail message count runs into triple digits after being away a couple of days. Yet, to me, this is a reasonable price to pay to have the world available at a mouse click. Moreover, it leads to efficiencies in other formerly time-consuming tasks. For instance, I can dispose of a couple of dozen e-mails (especially via the delete key) in the time it takes to return and connect a single phone call, and I don't receive nearly as many phone calls as I used to thanks to e-mail.