email- advantages and disadvantages

Disadvantages

-Privacy and security. People can hack into your emails and read material which should not be available. Some of that material may pose a risk to your security, that of your employer or even that of the nation. - Internet access. The fact that both sender and recipient(s) have to have email accounts can be a problem. -Some people do not have access to the internet (or choose not to use it) so you cannot assume that everyone has an email account. - Sometimes a lack of interactivity may be a problem. In situations where an instant reply or interactive discussion is needed, email does have limitations if the participants are not online at the same time. - Spam. - Viruses. - Phishing scams.

Advantages

-Speed of delivery. -Cost. Unlike the conventional mail system, there is no additional cost to the standard broadband charges. - Instant delivery on a global scale. - Delivery to multiple recipients. - Attachments (e.g. documents and audio and video fi les). - Having a record of the correspondence between users. - Webmail providers (including Hotmail and Gmail) tend to store emails on a remote provider, meaning that you can access them anywhere via a web browser

Multiple recipients

-To: To one person you send an email -CC:You can send the same message to a number of people. You can copy people in to the email using the cc (carbon copy) fi eld. Recipients who are entered in this fi eld will be visible to everyone the email is sent to. -BCC:If you want to include a recipient on an email - but you don't want other people to see that the email has been sent to them - then you add them into the Bcc (blind carbon copy) fi eld.

Address

-Within your email program, you can create a list of people's contact details (e.g. name, email address, company name, phone numbers).

Attatchments

-You can send a message and attach fi les with it (e.g. photos, documents,Spreadsheets)