‘E-mail’, by Maetani Shigehiro

It is often said that e-mail has had a huge impact on professional and social communication. Actually we can get important information for our work earlier than by letter, and when you have a computer or a mobile phone without a Fax, you can get the information anywhere, for example, in a car, an airplane and even the bathroom. We have also been easy to make relationships with them.
Although we have got lots of benefits from e-mail, e-mail has given us unexpected effects at the same time.
In the case of business, we send each other confidential information about the company’s policy every day for convenience and exchanging it rapidly. However, with e-mail, there is a risk that someone could steal our information. Generally speaking, if we make a program to protect it form them, they find a weak point in the program some day. Also, criminals send computer viruses by e-mail, and then they cause serious loss to the company.
In another case, people send too many e-mails. It means that they use mobile phones all the time to send e-mails. For example, drivers use mobile phones while driving. As a result, terrible accidents happen because they do not pay attentions to their driving. Neither are children exceptions. Some students press keys of mobile phones under their desks to send e-mail to their friends who are sitting on near them. Therefore, they can not concentrate on their lessons.
Eventually, we have had advantages and disadvantages of using e-mail. However, we can not imagine our lives without e-mail and it is impossible not to use e-mail in today’s society. In my opinion, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Therefore, we will not quit using e-mail, and we believe we can find the solutions to the problems which e-mail cause.