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itsrobert

(14,157 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 11:58 PM Mar 2015

Email vs Telephone vs Face to Face meetings

Why is email held to a higher standard than the other two?

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Email vs Telephone vs Face to Face meetings (Original Post) itsrobert Mar 2015 OP

One can more easily control one's own communication with email, elleng Mar 2015 #1

Emails create permanent records, files, data that can be stored forever, used to evil ends. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #2

wondered that too KT2000 Mar 2015 #3

elleng

(130,975 posts)

1. One can more easily control one's own communication with email,

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:29 AM

Mar 2015

write/review/send, not the same with the others, which can more readily result in spontaneity, which may or may not be desired.

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

2. Emails create permanent records, files, data that can be stored forever, used to evil ends.

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:44 AM

Mar 2015

And that's why sometimes people would prefer untraceable face to face meetings, or calls using untraceable phones.

KT2000

(20,584 posts)

3. wondered that too

Reply to itsrobert (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 03:20 AM

Mar 2015

I can see a record of meetings but email can be as casual as conversation. A forwarded email should never be taken at face value as it can be changed.

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