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OriginalGriff10-Mar-20 1:03
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lopatir10-Mar-20 2:09
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musefan10-Mar-20 2:35
musefan10-Mar-20 2:35 
With email it is too easy to lose content. If somebody replies to a "old" email then it splits the email chain and your suddenly following 2..4..8.. different conversations. Sure it's fine for a brief discussion if people only reply when they need to ("Thanks" is not one of those reasons).

With social media (depending on the platform) everyone sees the full SINGLE chain. You don't have to remember who/when a specific thing was said. Plus you often get extra features, like creating events. It's always easy to find the event details, just go to the event. You don't have to scroll a massive chain to find the date of the event in one email and the "new changed time and location" in another one.

Alan: "Party on Monday at 7PM at Bob's house"

10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"

Bob: "Change of plan. I won't be home for 7, new time is 8PM"

10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"

Chris: "Bob has lost his house. I am going to host the party at my place [insert new location]. Same time as mentioned before".

Me: "So... Tuesday at 5PM at Dave's house, or nah?"


I am not trying to promote social media, just trying to point out that they have a lot better functionality for this kind of thing than email does.
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