E-mail Manners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmVd8MT9XyA I love HOWCAST. Here is a great clip on e-mail manners. The interesting thing is, that when I sent out the quetion regarding lol and what it refers too, everyone came back with lots of laughs. In this clip they refer to it as lots of love...at least that's how I interpret it. And this is one of the great debacles about e-mails....where is the inference regarding the message. E-mails are easily mis-interpreted.

It used to be when so much of us used actual paper and pen to express our emotion, desires and situation, we had to wait a week or two for confirmation and then we would be dismayed and have to start all over again when our letter was inexplainably mis-interpreted. EGAD! So at least e-mails have time on our side in our age of INSTANT gratification. When in doubt phone or even better yet, have a face to face.

I am still a paper and pen kind of woman, but I find it best to only write when wishing one well, or congratulations etc. I try and stick to subjects that cannot be mis-interpreted and only succeed in giving the reciver of such an old fashioned communique...joy.

Becareful and considerate when e-mailing.
Manners for everyday situations...