In the last 5 to 10 years it has become an e-world, hasn’t it? E-mail has been around longer than that, but only in the last 4-5 years has it become the most preferred mode of communication in the world, based on sheer volume. During the last U.S. administration’s 8 years in the White House, more than 20 million emails were sent! Of course, most of them began, “Dear Santa Claus,” as one late-night jokester put it. To top it, the current administration is acting like jolly old St. Nick, giving away money as fast as it can be printed! And think about how many emails show up in your box each day, not just nefarious financial offers from Nigerian government officials, and junk ads for cheap pharmaceuticals to make life, uh, “happier,” and just e stuff you delete immediately, but real, honest to goodness communiqués from people you actually know – and perhaps even love, but that might be pushing it.
But we digress. The electronic evolution has extended to shopping, education, entertainment, information gathering, and just e stuff like finding out the weather online or reading the daily news in the electronic e-dition of the newspaper. Online insurance agents are called e-gents in one radio commercial produced by a bricks and mortar insurance company intent on mocking the trend toward buying insurance online. While one person waves to their flesh and blood agent, the other is encouraged to wave at his laptop. But the joke is on the traditional companies, because millions are switching to those online insurance retailers, or e-tailers every year, according to their online claims. And we know they must be telling the truth, because everything claimed as fact on the internet is true, isn’t it? Other e-happenings in the business world include e-commerce, e-payments, e-merchandising, and e-procurement. Those who love buying online are e-lated at the e-normous savings available in the e-world.
So what does all this mean for you in the non-e-world? For most of us, it at least means our handwriting is getting worse! Who writes by hand anymore? We even send birthday and holiday cards with typing and e-signatures! We’re wearing out our keyboards emailing, typing dozens of google searches per day, and just e stuff like adding info to our social networking site and doing that birdie thing at 140 characters or less!
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