Did you know that if email was a country, its 1.6 billion users would make it the largest in the world. Bigger than China, or the population of the USA and the EU combined. A stonking 247 billion emails are sent each day and at least 80% of these are considered to be spam by their recipients. And one more astonishing stat – apparently phishing is successful with 5% of internet users - http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html
Clearly email and the internet are massive in our lives. So why is it that so many seem unable to manage this resource well? We’re constantly gob-smacked (Northern English expression) at the number of emails we receive with unhelpful subject lines, rambling messages and far too many emoticons. We’re also stunned at those who don’t understand how to file their information for later, easy retrieval.
Last week I met several, highly intelligent young people who don’t understand their email programmes and find it hard to use a word processor. This is the Information Age – and it’s been here for at least 30 years. It’s not new technology. It’s everyday – and it’s time we all learned to use it well.
Our Information Overload programme can help. Contact me - clare@structuredlearning.com - if you'd like details.
