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With the rise of rapid-fire messaging, the digital letter seems to be crawling toward the fate of snail mail. If your in-box
With the rise of rapid-fire messaging, the digital letter seems to be crawling toward the fate of snail mail. If your in-box
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2018-06-30
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With the rise of rapid-fire messaging, the digital letter seems to be crawling toward the fate of snail mail.
If your in-box is currently reporting unread messages in the hundreds or thousands, you might have a hard time believing the news: e-mail is on the decline.
The total volume of e-mail has dropped about 10 percent since 2010. The word "e-mail" itself tells you about its origins: it was modeled on written letters. To this day, a lot of e-mail begins with a salutation. Maybe it’s "Hey" instead of "Dear Casey", but it’s there. And because there was so much overhead involved with sending a letter — folding, enveloping, addressing, stamping, mailing — few bothered to send only a few pithy words. The effort seemed to justify a longer message. Once heralded as the death of the personal human touch, e-mail has now taken over the letter’s place as a ubiquitous form of communication — both business and personal. But is its day in the digital sun coming to a close?
At first blush, that might seem to be the case. The incoming generation, after all, doesn’t do e-mail. Oh, they might have an account. They use it only as we would a fax machine: as a means to communicate with old-school folks like their parents or to fulfill the sign-up requirements of Web sites. They rarely check it, though. As of just a few years ago, among 25- to 35-year-olds, e-mail had already dropped 18 percent — and among teenagers, it was down about 60 percent. A Microsoft human resources guy recently told me that lately, applications from recent college graduates leave the "e-mail address" field blank. It’s considered too unwieldy, uncool, not immediate enough.
Today’s instant electronic memos — such as texting and Facebook and Twitter messages — are more direct, more concentrated, more efficient. They dispense with the salutation and the signoff; we already know the "to" and "from". Many corporations are moving to messaging networks for exactly that reason: more signal, less noise. And less time.
This trend is further evidence that store-and-forward systems such as e-mail and voicemail are outdated. Instead of my leaving you a lengthy message that you pick up later, I can now send you an unobtrusive, easily consumed message that you can read — and respond to — on the go. The decline of e-mail corresponds neatly to the dawn of the mobile era. Let’s face it: e-mail has historically been an activity. You sit down to do it. You fill up a block of time. And long missives are clumsy on a phone.
But instantaneous written messages are different. These are neatly tailored to fit in just about any time: before a movie, in a taxi, waiting for lunch. And because these notes are invariably brief, they’re a natural for smartphone typing. With these formats, you also have control over who can correspond with you, which you usually don’t in e-mail. And especially on Facebook, instant messaging can take on the character of a chat room, where several people can carry on at once.
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With the rise of rapid-fire messaging,
the digital letter seems to be crawling toward the fate of snail mail.
If your in-box is currently reporting unread messages in the hundreds or thousands, you might have a hard time believing the news:
e-mail is on the decline.
The total volume of e-mail has dropped
about 10 percent since 2010. The word "e-mail" itself tells you about its origins: it was modeled on written letters. To this day, a lot of e-mail begins with a salutation. Maybe it’s "Hey" instead of "Dear Casey," but it’s there. And
because there was so much overhead involved with sending a letter —
folding, enveloping, addressing, stamping, mailing
— few bothered to send only a few pithy words. The effort seemed to justify a longer message.
Once heralded as the death of the personal human touch,
e-mail has now taken over the letter’s place as a ubiquitous form of communication
— both business and personal.
But is its day in the digital sun coming to a close?
At first blush, that might seem to be the case.
The incoming generation, after all, doesn’t do e-mail.
Oh,
they might have an account. They use it only as we would a fax machine: as a means to communicate with old-school folks
like their parents or to fulfill the sign-up requirements of Web sites. They rarely check it, though. As of just a few years ago, among 25- to 35-year-olds, e-mail had already dropped 18 percent — and among teenagers, it was down about 60 percent. A Microsoft human resources guy recently told me that lately, applications from recent college graduates leave the " e-mail address" field blank.
It’s considered too unwieldy, uncool, not immediate enough.
Today’s instant electronic memos
— such as texting and Facebook and Twitter messages —
are more direct, more concentrated, more efficient.
They dispense with the salutation and the signoff; we already know the "to" and "from".
Many corporations are moving to messaging networks
for exactly that reason;
more signal, less noise. And less time.
This trend is further evidence that store-and-forward systems such as e-mail and voicemail are outdated.
Instead of my leaving you a lengthy message that you pick up later, I can now send you an unobtrusive, easily consumed message that you can read — and respond to — on the go.
The decline of e-mail corresponds neatly to the dawn of the mobile era.
Let’s face it:
e-mail has historically been an activity.
You sit down to do it. You fill up a block of time. And long missives are clumsy on a phone.
But instantaneous written messages are different. These are neatly tailored to fit in just about any time:
before a movie, in a taxi, waiting for lunch.
And because these notes are invariably brief, they’re a natural for smartphone typing.
With these formats, you also have control over who can correspond with you, which you usually don’t in e-mail. And especially on Facebook, instant messaging can take on the character of a chat room, where several people can carry on at once.
解析
本文讨论了电子邮件已经过时的表现及原因,并指出它会为更及时、简便的消息形式所替代。
重点一:开篇,指出全文的主旨:电子邮件的命运将会同传统的纸质信件一样,为时代所淘汰。
The digital letter seems to be crawling toward the fate of snail mail.
e-mail is on the decline.
重点二:电子邮件过时的具体表现。
The total volume of e-mail has dropped.
But is its day in the digital sun coming to a close?
次重点:电子邮件的起源
Because there was so much overhead involved with sending a letter — few bothered to send only a few pithy words.
The effort seemed to justify a longer message.
e-mail has now taken over the letter’s place as a ubiquitous form of communication.
重点三:电子邮件过时的原因一。
The incoming generation, after all, doesn’t do e-mail.
It’s considered too unwieldy, uncool, not immediate enough.
次重点:
They might have an account. They use it only as we would a fax machine: as a means to communicate with old-school folks
重点四:电子邮件过时的原因二。
Today’s instant electronic memos are more direct, more concentrated, more efficient. Many corporations are moving to messaging networks.
次重点:
...more signal, less noise. And less time.
重点五:电子邮件即将退出历史舞台的又一佐证及未来趋向。
This trend is further evidence that store-and-forward systems such as e-mail and voicemail are outdated.
The decline of e-mail corresponds neatly to the dawn of the mobile era. e-mail has historically been an activity.
重点六:与电子邮件相比,及时简讯的优势有哪些。
But instantaneous written messages are different.
These are neatly tailored to fit in just about any time.
And because these notes are invariably brief, they’re a natural for smartphone typing.
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