I am forced to assume that email and the Internet have severely retarded 3/4 of the population. It’s just too quick, this electronic communication. You can pop open an email, fire off a few phrases (typically leaving grammar, punctuation and common sense in the dust) and bang, there it is in the recipient’s inbox. Writing an actual paper letter requires time and patience, things most of us have in short supply. Plus, who can resist the ease of the backspace key in handling an error, instead of starting over on a new piece of paper?
The downside of instantaneous communication is the complete lack of THOUGHT put into it. Simplicity and ease of use should not preclude actual forethought. Just this morning I composed and then deleted an email to one of my son’s teachers. I decided she would take it more as butting in than an attempt to understand how the hell middle school works these days, and decided to leave it be. He’s pulling a B in her class, so fuckit.
So, the world at large, at least that portion with access to a computer, is retarded. If, in a support situation, you are given instructions on how to effect the change you desire, why would you reply, again asking for instructions? Are you simply trying to make that little vein in my forehead pop? Do I look like I *WANT* ulcers? Or are your reading comprehension skills right up there with a turtle’s?
Personally, unless it is some hysterical email forwarded to you by a normally-rational individual freaking out over the current political situation, to which all of the 100+ co-addressees insist upon reply-all-ing over the next 48 hours, I read every word of emails I send and receive. Particularly if I’ve actually asked someone for help. Reading their response seems to me the only logical course.
But there I go expecting logic again. Sorry.
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