Email-Social+Perspective


 * Email **

====**Email does so many different things for so many different people. People can stay "socially" connected to others in a faster manner. It is a form of communication tha****t is useful to stay connected to peers, family members, fellow students and workers, and so many more. It is basically the same thing as mail that gets delivered to a mailbox, at someone's house, but it is done electronically and online. So how does it work??**====


 * ===**The email message--**Instead of using a pen to write a letter on paper, you're using your keyboard to type an email message in an email program on your computer.===
 * ===**Sending the email--**When the email is finished and has been addressed to the recipient's email address, you don't put a stamp on it and post it, but press the SEND button in the email program. This makes the email message go on its journey.===
 * ===**Email Transport--**Like postal services transport letters and parcel, email services transmit email messages from sender to recipient. Usually, emails are not delivered to the recipient directly, though, but waiting at the "nearest" mail server to be picked up by them.===
 * ===**Fetching new mail--**If you've got new mail in your mailbox, you go and fetch it. Similarly, your email program can check for new email messages at your mail server and download them for you to read.===

**--Anyone in the world that has an email acc****ount, and access to a computer/internet can send emails to anyone in the world!**

 * Now we can communicate in a fraction of a second, with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of email; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty of messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has been very easy to establish a kind of global friendship, where you can share your thoughts, and can explore cultures of different ethnicity.**

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 * Messaging:**
 * You can directly send another email to a person via Facebook. Within Facebook, you can send messages to people on your Friends List. These massages are similar to an email in that it is a private communication, however, you have to log onto Facebook to send messages and they have to log onto Facebook to receive the messages.**
 * Messages can be sent to one friend or multiple friends just like a traditional email. They can include photos and links.**


 * An example of emailing to keep in touch and build friendships is evident on one particular website (Canadian Senior Years). This website was designed for older people and allows them to talk to whomever they would like to on this specific site. They simply send emails to one another, and are able to stay connected even if they live so far away from each other. This site allows the older people to build friendships and companionship's they may bot have had before.**

References:


 * [|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_positives_and_negatives_of_the_internet#ixzz1nsw0yEIU]
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