Sorry folks, but it is 2024. You cannot claim to be a "good communicator" and also fail to respond to email.
@garyackerman Is this email subject in reference to anything specific?
"Good communicator" can be just in person too - many are not into tech all even at simplest level (which can still be hard to manage let's face it - and they feel how we might feel about being forced to use AI or Advanced Tech in general.. which is fair to be honest and still a minefield considering email = gmail and Google = invasion of privacy etc etc)... and devices needed, notification etc...
I remember setting people up with email on gmail and then kinda realising well might not have been best thing to get used to... especially in the invasive-now.
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More blah blah about email (optional reading),,,
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Story of many people's life is trying to contact people by email, as it was / is the main way
(now Mastodon-only is almost a real alternative reality!)
It's hard to showing how it's not working / how people fail other people usually really interested in what they do / need for retraining better practises and time management and retain people better to what was never really done well or looked at solving:
lots of interaction and management of it...
and expecting more with more success!
Of course use other tool like Zoom (Jitsi / WebRTC) or simple audio chat (file recording or live chat etc)... but email works as basic start sometimes...
Life can continue in it's broken ways so this is part of the hard task when we have a society running on 3 wheels (made from lots of individuals with lots of emails).
We really need to do some hand-holding or let others walk us through the idea of #bestpractices in whatever their life is about and re-training / (re)do things better to understand each email is golden!
Not breaking people but really working with them...
Email is definitely up there for all time best and worst in communication. Hit and miss and so on... really underestimated too for progress of the 'human' kind of things of many levels usually not expected but still possible by email...
@freeschool When I composed this post, I was thinking about the technology practices common in a group. If one opts out of the dominant technology, they are opting out of communication, thus they cannot be good at it.
In many professional settings, email still dominates. For me, I do not use it with my closest colleagues, but in my work setting, it is widely used, and some folks do not make it a habit to respond even when there is the expectation.
In my personal life, I have acquaintances who do not have or use cell phones. They are excluded from some communication as they don't get the group text messages. They reason, "if its something important you can call me," buy they reality is that today plans and decisions are made and finalized before anyone can reach these individuals on their landlines.
People are also not helped by the framework or narrative itself, that "either you are in or you're out" of conversation by the technology you do or don't use...
@garyackerman Yes good points and something I'd love other people to comment if being called 'stuck in their ways' and not using things as much as others (so not really 'stuck' just they have their reasons I'd like to know more and feel from them).
TLDR: People are also not helped by the framework or narrative itself, that "either you are in or you're out" of conversation by the technology you do or don't use"
I think we all felt it at some point or still can feel it in new things for us today - AI for me currently - just no way!
...and actually still emails now!!
So using Fediverse can be a solution to all that!!
█ Biggest point I can offer and I hope you can acknowledge is:
That people are also not helped by the framework or narrative itself, that "either you are in or you're out" of conversation by the technology you do or don't use. It's a kind of reflection on the way people do things or try jumping people on to different ways (a kind of aggression or ignorance but more aggression if people higher up know what they are doing and reduced channels they create / exploit top-down) to make people use tech also increasingly as their way of life (increasingly online only) or siphon and extract all the data meanwhile to make perfectly losing games (profit) that people find themselves playing unknown to them or less transparently because it's all 'free' ! Lol us but also 'poor (unknowing) us'....
It's kind of hardly fair moving the picture frame to render generations obsolete as well as people perhaps not taking it up for various solid / unsolid reasons.
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The rest is optional reading
and not needed / above is main point. Thanks it's also too long unless really interested in mentality or why and why not people about Tech from variety of viewpoiints best as audio later perhaps or in discussion to refer to this post.
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So by email standards this is perhaps simplest tech but now already becoming increasingly more complicated, invasive, multifaceted, more 3rd party, more invisible who is behind the screen / websites and faster doing really "God knows what at the same time!". Not all of the people are programmer and even programmers can't see how it's being used...
Remembering how the people felt 'logging on' and 'logging in' into email and all the change of world it would suggest somewhat... of a coming reality they would be speeding up in accepting usage and accepting that as normal, is a big thing. As well as being forced to answer, not talk to a 'real human', out-sourcing, having expectations by workplaces, or reducing things increasingly to text etc I think was / is still in people's mind and quite a sound shout for how we still have that and got into a lot of mess... faster.
(It wasn't pure fear or unjustified discomfort)...
It becomes less in our hands (even those I talked to running their own email started jacking it in) and so from choice or two bad things, people can do least bad (or do nothing).
...unless... it's overly serving them like Facebook served people... to find people or see new born baby pictures to the grandparents who might have questioned how this magic was all possible 'for free' and warning family to signing up with big unknown American sites but after probably being shown baby pictures from some family having Facebook, and no apparent direct invasion (or junk mail in the post) the bashing died down calling it a fad at first, or saying it's an extra bell and whistle to photo pictures sent by post - preferring to do things 'normally' in life etc (indeed changing norms and arguably not much for the better... or just less human overall...).
So then accepting speed and instant joy over whatever is happening in the background and site's programming / tracking / 3rd party info selling etc...
People 1000's of miles away suddenly found it less scary for the benefits. The reality is probably more scary or overarching.
An then with tech people also found less time as result as working life encroaches outside and require you to check your mail and ironically perhaps more work and worry.
But video and audio is coming back around again in a better way I think.
Additionally, to hit point home about usage of Tech, the modern day is or can be used as a way of installing tech (monitoring) our life after almost-any-excuses for it's practicality or speed at loss of the other communicational-human stuff deliberately dropped in using tech (like not asking people and more telling them from distance, or not letting people rest away from work) and as overall ordering people what to do etc
My reply can seem overkill but as an Tech continues at equally faster speed there is therefore not always the making of things easier and sometimes at best nullifying benefits if all people can do is keep calling / emailing and hassling you).
Tech and uncaringness is equally increased to leave same as before but faster.
Again would love to hear that audibly by others or by text reply here how they don't want to get into those traps (many don't have Facebook) despite any benefits that might be seen as less-than-long-lasting or bad-habit forming of the unhealthy kind (screen, constant checking, stuck to keyboards, sitting all the time, being like a moth to light with how much there is online vs. cultivating local / offline people around them).
It's taken us a while to realise (or still realising it) and I hope we can show that more clearly how better to do or not it, not necessarily as all-in or blind or unchecked (as a lot of new Tech is and develops know it later flanking us).
Overall trying to do time and technology better, together. 🧠 ⌨️ 🎤