Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > Not necessarily. More like that communication tends to fall apart when > there are multiple methods of communication.
> Take this entirely anecdotal situation that happened to us this year: > - most of the family is on facebook / email, so sent them an electronic > invitation to a Christmas party > - one aunt doesnt, so we mailed out a card. > Got told after Thanksgiving that aunt felt left out as people were > talking about it over that holiday (our party is early / mid-december; > well before "office parties" and the like). Called her up, and it > turned out she never got the invitation. Same example from my circle of friends and aquaintances: - some use WhatsApp - some use Facebook - some use Mail (like me) There is a bit of overlap between the first two and nearly everyone in the first two groups also has a mail account, but interestingly not all. What now happens if some activitiv is planned depends on in which group initator is, that is the circle that mostly plans and decides stuff, and then maybe some time later, this is also relayed through the other channels. And as you might imagine, this creates failures in commication, for example a BBQ was planned, but only the WhatsApp-People and some Facebookies where there, because the Mail-Guys got the message far too late. Or in the other direction, a game evening was planned via mail, but nobody relayed that to the people who don't read their mail account daily. Etc. Etc. 10 years ago, WhatsApp didn't exist (OK, it came out in 2009, but in 2010 nobody was using it) and only email was used in our group and those kind of problems didn't exist, because only one communications channel was used. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
