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Lying in Email - Probable rather than Possible
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 508968" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Susie, I think you make some very good points.</p><p></p><p>I think that for many people, e-mail and text messages are just "ether" rather than "putting it in writing". So they are stunned when whatever they've written down and sent out comes back to bite them.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago when I was studying Human-Computer Interaction and other related subjects, I remember reviewing eye-scan studies that show people's eyes track differently when they're reading from a screen rather than reading from a page. A different part of the brain is engaged, all of which feeds into people's perception that it's all just pixels, not real words to real people.</p><p></p><p>I heard someone recently describe e-mail as a "leaky" medium, and I thought that was a great description. One of my mentors back when I got started in IT used to say, don't put anything in e-mail that you wouldn't want published on a billboard over the expressway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 508968, member: 3907"] Susie, I think you make some very good points. I think that for many people, e-mail and text messages are just "ether" rather than "putting it in writing". So they are stunned when whatever they've written down and sent out comes back to bite them. Many years ago when I was studying Human-Computer Interaction and other related subjects, I remember reviewing eye-scan studies that show people's eyes track differently when they're reading from a screen rather than reading from a page. A different part of the brain is engaged, all of which feeds into people's perception that it's all just pixels, not real words to real people. I heard someone recently describe e-mail as a "leaky" medium, and I thought that was a great description. One of my mentors back when I got started in IT used to say, don't put anything in e-mail that you wouldn't want published on a billboard over the expressway. [/QUOTE]
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