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Thinking Twice about E-mail E-mail is
rapidly becoming one of the fastest and most
beloved ways of communicating with others, but are
there some things to look out for? Bernard Bonnet
from FranceMaría Eugenia C. Treu from Brazil
discuss e-mail issues. Bernard Bonnet from France
Although e-mail is a wonderful way to communicate, it is very dangerous because it is going to alter relationships. Since I have a computer (I got it when I moved to the U.S.), I have more and more difficulties to "hand-write". I send e-mails to my friends who have computers—but in France it's not so common—and as for the others, I am waiting for them to call me! I understood this evolution (the beginning of an addiction?) when my best friend in Paris, while I was proposing to send an e-mail, said to me, "I don't want an e-mail. I want a real, colorful postcard, written with your thick black pen and your signature even if it takes 8 days to receive it."
María Eugenia Treu from Brazil
If you work in front of a computer, you are aware of how many trashy e-mails you can receive in a day. Some people who have nothing else to do fill their empty days sending dirty images and disgusting scenes to other people by e-mail. I think that these trashy e-mails should have some kind of regulation, but not in the same way as the other media. There should be some kind of filter of what you can or cannot receive. This trashy e-mail could even bring a serious virus to your computer.Also, you would be very upset if these disgusting scenes arrived for your 8-year-old son, for example. If there is something to filter it, it would be a good thing to have installed on your computer.
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