E-Mails considered harmful

E-Mails are a great way for buissines communication. For private communication they fail utterly... It is just too easy to send one. You sit in front of your computer, start typing and boof, you hurt someone, you insult someone, you get misunderstood...

If you want to say something important, try a phonecall, try talking, try writing a letter (for the slashdot readers out there: letters are these strange paper sheets written on by these things your grandparents called pencils which make ugly stains on PDAs if you can't find your stilo...)

E-Mails do not involve thinking. They are much too easy to send for that. Worse yet are web-cards. You find one, think it is funny, send it, and five minutes later it is not funny anymore, even insulting. On Valentine's day, you declare your love by a fraction of a second click or worse, you send an "Nobody loves me, so I insult you" card with the same click... Much to easy. Start thinking, learn writing, stop typing.