Email doesn't buzz my phone or watch.
Email can't see me.
Email can't hear me.
Email can't cough on me.
I can delete an email without being rude.
I can laugh at an email without being rude.
I can adore an email and read it 18 times and research its topics and its author and its recipients and take hours replying, link to voluminous treatises for further reading, add graphics, and CC six people on six continents who would really like to see it, and BCC two more people who would really like to see it but don't want to get involved.
I can reply to an email in less than 2 seconds, and again, and again.
Or I can put an email off for three weeks while I think about it.
I can send an email to hundreds of people at the same time in each of their time zones.
I can send an email next Wednesday now.
I can send an email to a half a million people in one city.
I can send a better email to just the people who didn't open the first one.
I can send a better email to just the people who opened the first one but didn't yet say they were willing to help nonviolently shut down CNN.
I can write half an email now and finish it later.
I can read an email on my computer, not just my phone.
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