'REPLY ALL' - A DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON - CAUTION PLEASE

In this world of technology all of us are immersed in sending out our thoughts on a roller coaster of an email with a favourite mailing list which includes friends, relatives, spouse and children Are we taking enough precaution to be selective with the names in the favourite list before shooting off a message I am sure half of us 'WOULD NOT'

Now for the damage - example

Monica Chopra [name changed] a finance executive with a garment company - After a long fight with her client she decided to escalate the matter to her boss and simply forwarded the entire message - a common mistake we do in day to day life - with a short note saying "this fellow is getting on my nerves and that you please deal with this pain". Instead of sending it to the boss, she sent it back to the client - the the biggest client of the comapny - result - she is rendered unemployed - enough said now.

Instant Messages or IMs are next in the line of weapons of destruction - An advertisement consultant, we believe, talks of motifying IM experience of his own He said amongst friends it is common to call each other names and one day when he saw a school-buddy on line he shot a msg "How goes ...........ass" This buddy of his signed off without any response only to hear later that this buddy's laptop was projecting a product presentation when this message popped up on the screen creating embarrassment. This also happen when find such pop-ups on communicator while projecting presentations - this causes lots of embarassments too besides credibility of an individual depending on the pop-up messages

Earlier IMs used to be lesser evils as they disappear once sent Thanks to service providers like GMail etc these are saved on every chat and can be pretty dangerous if they are browsed by elders and Parents at home Any sensitive and personal messages exchanged on the chat can be an acute embarrassment besides loss of faith and trust on their wards - Far worse, the broken trust and faith can take a longer length of time to be repairad and rebuilt.

Reply all and auto fills it is said are definitely not [y]our friends To make matters worse it is unfoprtunte both the 'reply' and 'reply all' buttons are next to each other Hence check double check to ensure a reply to be sent only to one person you meant and not a group to whom these may be irrelevant or not at all required It is time hence we think of a phone call or a face - to - face chat when some personal messages you intend to convey to an INDIVIDUAL

Please think twice and pause before you hit a send button There are times we all shoot emails on impulse - I always believe when you are impulsive and emotional you are not rational - andafter hitting the send button we sit and regret it - avoid such situations Dont dash off an email in anger as this communication in black and while can be held against you at a later inconvenient instance.

As it is said, there are always flip sides to good things and Email is no exception either Only our exercising caution on all emails can help us save embarrassments, mortifiation and regret

HAPPY MAILING BUT WITH CAUTION

CHEERS