Tag: email

Fluent gets me excited about email again. I’m an avid email user and despite what some people think about it, I think it’s still the best way to communicate without having to be tied to a common service or provider.

Unlike private messaging on Facebook, Twitter, or even Google+, email is open, interoperable across different providers, easy enough to use. As far as spam is concerned, Google has managed to deal with the majority of spam, hardly any of which ever made it into my inbox.

I can choose who to respond to, when, and how. Emails don’t interrupt the way phone calls do and the nature of it makes record keeping much easier. Having a thorough search feature built in to an email service like Gmail allows a faster way to find specific conversations without having to categorize or tag them. This is why email works for me.

Presentation of email hasn’t changed much since it was introduced which means it’s getting stale so if there’s somebody out there trying to figure out a better way to handle email, then by all means, let’s have a look and see what they have come up with. It may or may not end up better than the current way so why not give them a shot?