Janet CollinsThe Forward Button
March 8th 2009 20:08
Before social networking sites came into being, there was another way to keep in touch with a whole array of friends and colleagues, send them on humorous mutterings and do it all with a push of one button – the “forward button”. We shouldn’t underestimate the ability of this button just because some networking sites have become the new devices for sharing information.
The “forward button” on your email is a lot more important than you think. We have just all taken it for granted since we have been emailing, but if you just think how much information is forwarded to you by this little gem, it has to be right at the top of our source of news, jokes and funny emails that come to us every day.
Yes the “forward button” lets my friends organise my life and my holidays. I receive all these funny things that they have received on the internet that give me a laugh and make my day. It lets me know what all my friends are doing and what they are planning to do. I, too can share information and jokes and funny YouTube things that have been sent to me with a whole lot of people.
Yet it is one of those little idiosyncrasies that we have embraced without recognising just how much it allows us to keep in touch and share humour and information with all of the people with whom we are connected.
Some of my friends and colleagues have not yet ventured onto the social networking thing but they have email which means I can share with them information so much more easily than if I had to spend sending out messages individually and it has to be one of the most underrated and least talked about means of keeping connected.
It also highlights the importance of email generally, which again we all take for granted. We don’t even need to be synchronised, like we do on a phone, to hear from friends or share the information they forward to us. Just think for a minute how much information and funny emails come to you through the use of this button every day.
There are quite a few people I know who have never boarded the internet and email phenomenon and continue to resist it. They actually don’t know what they are missing out on.
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Are they nearly over? I still get lots of information this way and it's a hell of a lot easier than finding it myself. I still enjoy getting info this way and I guess the whole point to this post was to remind people just how useful it is.
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Nothing can beat a good phone conversation or better still, a visit. Forwarding stuff by email certainly doesn't replace this but doing this in between helps bond a little more, I think.
To have a phone conversation you both have to be synchronized for one thing. How many times a week to we go to messagebank? And visiting.....well, sometimes distance is a problem with that and emails don't worry about distance.
Lets just say emailing comes in third AFTER a personal phone call or a visit.
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I agree. Those chain emails are a pain in the neck. Good thing is that they are so easy to delete. And I still maintain that we underrate this little button. You can notify half a dozen friends of things in a flash or hundreds (even thosands) of people of something in one email...and not everyone is on Facebook or MySpace.
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