Make Person-To-Person Email a Thing Again
Inspired by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, I’m trying to Make Person-to-Person Email a Thing again. If your message does not require immediate attention, don’t send a text message, WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, or other direct-message. Just send an email. That way, the recipient reads and responds to it it at their leisure.
Things you should send in email:
- “Happy birthday!”
- “Here is a funny meme.”
- “Let’s get together in a couple of weeks.”
Things that are OK to send in text message:
- “I’m running 15 minutes late - sorry!”
- “You’re on fire. Literally. You might want to look into that.”
- “There is pie.”
Cory wrote about this on his blog recently, but I can’t find the link.