Email and Me, a tale of mediocrity.

A little while back in class we discussed email, how we all use email, and how it differs from real mail. I myself use a variety of emails for different purposes, leisure, important, standard, official, and so on. I like using gmail, yes, gmail is creepy if you read about it sometimes, but I find it works a lot better than the alternatives.

<--- We love our Google. I know I do. heh.














But, back to email, like a lot of systems we build, the digital email system works similarly to the physical mail system. The 'letter' itself, exchange centers, servers, delivery, protocols, there's a lot that is a mirror of an already working system, and why not? If it works, why change it? Until someone comes around and thinks of something better, it probably won't change.
I think if everyone manged to use email properly and didn't abuse it, there'd probably be even more people using it than there are. The only problem with data is: it's not a physical object (within reason) and it's security concerns. Besides those, it's pretty solid, even when it comes to something simple, like email.