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	<title>Comments on: E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress; thus #noemail</title>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
		<link>http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/e-mail-as-a-source-and-symbol-of-stress-thus-noemail/comment-page-1/#comment-443441</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at the chart again. http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/social-network-use-rises-from-11-65-email-drops-to-92-noemail/ Look at the dark blue line that indicates &quot;Social Neworking&quot; The chart is about growth and change in communications. When you look at it look at the dates. Note that the study that you capriciously use but an inane and inappropriate substitution of terms is hopelessly dated and doesn&#039;t reflect current communications practices. 

About efficiency of social over email. See any of the Atos or IBM studies. &quot;Beer&quot; is not &quot;Milk;&quot; &quot;email is not &quot;social&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at the chart again. <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/social-network-use-rises-from-11-65-email-drops-to-92-noemail/" rel="nofollow">http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/social-network-use-rises-from-11-65-email-drops-to-92-noemail/</a> Look at the dark blue line that indicates &#8220;Social Neworking&#8221; The chart is about growth and change in communications. When you look at it look at the dates. Note that the study that you capriciously use but an inane and inappropriate substitution of terms is hopelessly dated and doesn&#8217;t reflect current communications practices. </p>
<p>About efficiency of social over email. See any of the Atos or IBM studies. &#8220;Beer&#8221; is not &#8220;Milk;&#8221; &#8220;email is not &#8220;social&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: David Lee</title>
		<link>http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/e-mail-as-a-source-and-symbol-of-stress-thus-noemail/comment-page-1/#comment-443438</link>
		<dc:creator>David Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What studies?  The study you cited doesn&#039;t even mention social networking.  The chart is a non sequitar.  How does it establish that social networking doesn&#039;t suffer from the same stress causing issues as email?  All it shows is that social networking has grown enormously while email has declined by 1%.  Has a study been conducted to determine if and to what extent social networking causes stress, or that compares the stress caused by email to that caused by social networking?

Perhaps you&#039;ve already mentioned it in one of your posts.  I&#039;m still reading through them, so I apologize if I haven&#039;t gotten to it yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What studies?  The study you cited doesn&#8217;t even mention social networking.  The chart is a non sequitar.  How does it establish that social networking doesn&#8217;t suffer from the same stress causing issues as email?  All it shows is that social networking has grown enormously while email has declined by 1%.  Has a study been conducted to determine if and to what extent social networking causes stress, or that compares the stress caused by email to that caused by social networking?</p>
<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve already mentioned it in one of your posts.  I&#8217;m still reading through them, so I apologize if I haven&#8217;t gotten to it yet.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re right; it&#039;s out of date. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/social-network-use-rises-from-11-65-email-drops-to-92-noemail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; the chart below&lt;/a&gt; which is an article on which you commented. I&#039;m guessing you read it. 

Whilst a word change may look valid to you, studies cited here show you are wrong. &quot;Seems to me&quot; does not allow you to substitute &quot;tiger&quot; for &quot;cat&quot; or &quot;camel&quot; for &quot;cow&quot; or &quot;email&quot; for &quot;social networking&quot; as I&#039;ve documented here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re right; it&#8217;s out of date. See <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/social-network-use-rises-from-11-65-email-drops-to-92-noemail" rel="nofollow"> the chart below</a> which is an article on which you commented. I&#8217;m guessing you read it. </p>
<p>Whilst a word change may look valid to you, studies cited here show you are wrong. &#8220;Seems to me&#8221; does not allow you to substitute &#8220;tiger&#8221; for &#8220;cat&#8221; or &#8220;camel&#8221; for &#8220;cow&#8221; or &#8220;email&#8221; for &#8220;social networking&#8221; as I&#8217;ve documented here.</p>
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		<title>By: David Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found a copy of the paper online at http://people.bu.edu/grodal/Email.pdf  The data for the study was collected in 2001 and 2002, prior to the advent of social networks such as Facebook.  It is therefore unable to draw any comparison between email and social networking.   The paper cites four primary reasons that email creates additional work and causes so much stress.  Those are

1.  It is easier to send email than written letters and memos.  This leads to more communications being sent.
2.  Email creates additional work because there is little or no cost associated with making requests.  More requests means more work.
3.  Email is used not only for traditional communications but also to keep track of the status of tasks, distribute documents, manage contacts, and organize information.
4.  Email disrupts the recipient&#039;s concentration generating another source of work.

Strike the word &quot;email&quot; from each of those reasons and substitute &quot;social networking&quot;.  Now, re-read each reason and see if it&#039;s still valid with social networking in place of email.  They all look valid to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found a copy of the paper online at <a href="http://people.bu.edu/grodal/Email.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://people.bu.edu/grodal/Email.pdf</a>  The data for the study was collected in 2001 and 2002, prior to the advent of social networks such as Facebook.  It is therefore unable to draw any comparison between email and social networking.   The paper cites four primary reasons that email creates additional work and causes so much stress.  Those are</p>
<p>1.  It is easier to send email than written letters and memos.  This leads to more communications being sent.<br />
2.  Email creates additional work because there is little or no cost associated with making requests.  More requests means more work.<br />
3.  Email is used not only for traditional communications but also to keep track of the status of tasks, distribute documents, manage contacts, and organize information.<br />
4.  Email disrupts the recipient&#8217;s concentration generating another source of work.</p>
<p>Strike the word &#8220;email&#8221; from each of those reasons and substitute &#8220;social networking&#8221;.  Now, re-read each reason and see if it&#8217;s still valid with social networking in place of email.  They all look valid to me.</p>
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