Advantages:
- Emails are delivered extremely fast when compared to traditional post.
- Emails can be sent 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Web-mail means emails can be sent and received from any computer, anywhere in the world, that has an Internet connection.
- Cheap - when using broadband, each email sent is effectively free.
- Emails can be sent to one person or several people.
- Emails are fast. They are delivered at once around the world. No other form of written communication is as fast as an email.
- Emails do not use paper. They are environment friendly and save a lot of trees from being cut down.
Disadvantages:
- The recipient needs access to the Internet to receive email.
- No guarantee the mail will be read until the user logs on and checks their email.
- Emails may carry viruses. These are small programs that harm your computer system. They can read out your email address book and send themselves to a number of people around the world.
- Your mailbox may get flooded with emails after a certain time so you have to empty it from time to time.
- Many people send unwanted emails to others. These are called spam mails. It takes a lot of time to filter out the unwanted emails from those that are really important.
- Your files could get hacked by people on internet.
- Emails are delivered extremely fast when compared to traditional post.
- Emails can be sent 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Web-mail means emails can be sent and received from any computer, anywhere in the world, that has an Internet connection.
- Cheap - when using broadband, each email sent is effectively free.
- Emails can be sent to one person or several people.
- Emails are fast. They are delivered at once around the world. No other form of written communication is as fast as an email.
- Emails do not use paper. They are environment friendly and save a lot of trees from being cut down.
Disadvantages:
- The recipient needs access to the Internet to receive email.
- No guarantee the mail will be read until the user logs on and checks their email.
- Emails may carry viruses. These are small programs that harm your computer system. They can read out your email address book and send themselves to a number of people around the world.
- Your mailbox may get flooded with emails after a certain time so you have to empty it from time to time.
- Many people send unwanted emails to others. These are called spam mails. It takes a lot of time to filter out the unwanted emails from those that are really important.
- Your files could get hacked by people on internet.