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Are you annoying others without even knowing it?
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At the time, it must not have seemed very important because Ray didn't bother to save that first message or even record the exact date. Ray Tomlinson has been called the father of email because he invented the software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. Ray made it possible to swap messages between machines in different locations; between universities, across continents, and oceans. At the time, he was working for Boston-based Bolt, Beranek and Newman, which was helping to develop Arpanet, the forerunner of the modern Internet.
Now, over forty years later email messages are a large part of our lives in today's network society and I bet you can't remember the first e-mail message you ever sent either?
While email and the Internet have "changed everything" in the way we work and communicate, many are finding that reading and answering email messages can consume too much time; time we would rather spend doing something else.
According to a new 'MailTime Email Mistakes Survey' conducted by MailTime - a mobile app that makes business email on your smartphone faster, easier, and more conversational -- the top five biggest business email mistakes are:
Top 5 Business EMAIL MISTAKES:
1: Emails that are "insensitive" in tone (93% disapproval)
2: Emails that are not personally addressed to you (88% disapproval)
3: Emails that have numerous replies (87% disapproval)
4: Emails that have numerous recipients (82% disapproval)
5: Emails that are too long (81% disapproval)
To conduct this study, MailTime surveyed a sample representative of 1,000 working adults. Interestingly, survey data also indicated that excessively long business email communications are not only annoying, but also ineffective:
· 19% of people won't fully read an email longer than 1 paragraph
· 51% of people won't fully read an email longer than 2 paragraphs
· 76% of people won't fully read an email longer than 3 paragraphs
· 84% of people won't fully read an email longer than 4 paragraphs
Only 10% of people will actually read word-for-word an email longer than 7 paragraphs
Source: www.MailTime.com