Why Emails Are Misunderstood

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 15, 2006 @04:28AM from the i-thought-it-because-you-were-a-jerk dept.

werdna writes "The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on why it's so easy to misinterpret emails. From the article: 'First and foremost, e-mail lacks cues like facial expression and tone of voice. That makes it difficult for recipients to decode meaning well. Second, the prospect of instantaneous communication creates an urgency that pressures e-mailers to think and write quickly, which can lead to carelessness. Finally, the inability to develop personal rapport over e-mail makes relationships fragile in the face of conflict.'"

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ummm by sk8dork · 2006-05-15 04:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

_I_ figured this out for myself, surely after many before me...BREAKING NEWS: the same applies for text messging and text IM!!

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Shut your effing gob, tou tit! by wiredog · 2006-05-15 05:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

Your type really makes me puke! You snotty, malodourous, perverts!

Hmmm, yeah, that probably needs some smilies and html markup to make the emotional context clearer.

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