Chapter 8
Communicating with E-mail, IM, and Social Networks
This chapter is about keeping in touch and connecting with friends, family, colleagues, and services. It is about using programs and the Internet to share your thoughts, interests, and other things about your life. It is about using your computer to do things you used to do, or never could do, with the telephone and postal (snail) mail. It really is amazing how far we've come from smoke signals, messengers running on foot or on horseback in relays to cover vast distances, or even messages in bottle tossed in the sea. Now we can talk to and see each other instantly, across the world. The world is the same size, yet with these richer, more direct, and quicker forms of communication ...
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