Such fascinating story Ullman has. But the way she uses her email is far from how I do it. For one thing, the frequency of the use of emails, including on work related matters differ from mine. For my projects, teamworks, and organizing emails are mainly used to keep a record or otherwise set up times for conference calls or actual meet ups to get the real progress done. And even on personal emails, they are used to set things up rather than hold actual conversations. Her use of emails rather resembles how I used to use instant messaging a few years back. Often interpolated, and quick comments with some wait time for a response, instant messaging did not require for me to check consistantly for an email and required little attention. However her case may be simply due to the lack of technology available instead, where instant messaging has not become a major tool yet.
The second point of difference I would say is how we go over programming codes while far away. due to the extremely tedious nature of computer programs, instead of sending emails about each individual component of the program, I would email the entire code with suggestions and changes commented in. However this also makes the process much less personal, with the exceptions of occasional jokes thrown in there. The way they worked together obviously opened room up for actual conversation on the email.
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I agree that instant messaging is a huge improvement from e-mail because it allows you to talk to someone with immediate responses and does not require the constant checking for a response like e-mail does. Like you, I no longer use an instant messaging service like AIM, but I do still use instant messaging features on other services such as Skype and Facebook. I find it to be a convenient method of communicating with someone and use it regularly to hold conversations with friends.
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