Internet and e-mail:
Internet is an international computer network that links computers from sectors such as government agencies, business houses, educational institutions and individuals. It receives information, stores it and allows it to be read on satisfying certain conditions.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) allow one to create the e-mail ID free, hoping to recover the cost through the ads to which the user is exposed during the use of email. A typical email address reads abedef@xyz.com. Some other ISPs are bsnl, yahoo, hotmail, and Gmail.
Note the use of only lower case (small) alphabets email in IDs.
Every time the user wants to send messages or check the incoming mail, he can reach his ID by typing a password which makes the mail account private. However, once you have submitted to the mechanism of email you do not know who might read this "private" information far away. As such email does not guarantee 100% secrecy.
Advantages:
(a) Email is by far the cheapest and fastest means of sending printed information (verbal as well as non-verbal). At one click of the button, hundreds of pages of information can be sent to hundreds of email addresses worldwide (to be noted by receivers upon checking the incoming mail or inbox).
(b) No paper is required. Messages can be created directly on the computer, and added on from different computer files, CDs, floppies, etc.
(c) This facility is now available in many regional languages of India.
(d) It is informal and allows the sender to remain anonymous (since he can use any name as his email ID. For instance J.K. Singh can use udankhatola as his email name).
(e) Organizations and publishing houses take cognizance of messages coming via email. Newspapers and magazines print letters that come via email.
(f) As long as you carry your password with you, you can open your email account o any computer in the world which has this facility. You remain unencumbered eve with a mobile handset. You can just enter an internet cafe, pay the rent and us the email. Email is extraordinarily portable.
(g) You can have an address book in your email account, record the incoming mai and edit them and so on.
(h) When you reply to an email message, the sender's message is automatically se back to him for ready reference.
(i) As human need and imagination guide, more innovations are possible.
(6) Email can enable an ongoing electronic conference. People across the world can "meet" on internet and confer on a topic of common interest.
(k) The receiver need not respond at once as on the telephone but can take his time. Emailing helps to avoid a direct interface.
(1) In an organisation, a subordinate may quickly and directly reach a superior on email. Email makes an organisation more democratic (as individuals have more chance of being heard by the proper person even if he is several levels higher).
Disadvantage:
(i) Email, because of the potential anonymity, remains an informal channel of communication.
(ii) Excess use and flooding of unwanted messages (especially from advertisers) is a major drawback of this system. Unless one takes care to block unwanted ads, one finds one's inbox full of offers which maybe doubtful and insincere. Wading through chunks of email is one of the biggest problems for those who depend on email for their communication needs.
(iii) One may not be private while using the computer for emailing. To that extent the secrecy is lost.
(iv) In case the receiver is unable to open his email account as soon as a message is received, the message cannot work for him.
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