07/21/2020

The Three Worst Things About Email

Here's how to fix them

Apologies if you’ve been waiting for an email from me. My Gmail has 17,539 unread messages.

Raise your hand if you have even more. For many, Gmail accounts have become less communication space and more of an endless pile Google gets to snoop through. Pandemic life has only made digging through the coupons, Zoom invites, newsletters and school assignments more fraught. A lot of important conversations have shifted to text, WhatsApp, Slack and Facebook, but that hasn’t done away with email… or made not responding any less impolite.

Most consumer tech gets better over time. Why doesn’t email?

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.