I am writing a letter for all of you to see and read. I hope that you don't mind that I am addressing it to all of my friends. Please know that I will not do this often. I will only send a message to ALL of my friends if it is an important notification. I think letters should be personal. They should be written from one member to another member.
MyEC is a place to learn and share English. Private messages are not necessary unless they contain private information between two people. A better place to write comments and ideas for a group is to write a blog. You can also use members' walls. This way everyone can see the writing and benefit from it.
When you send a private message to 80+ friends, most of your friends probably do not even open the message. Most will not respond either. This is not because they don't like you. It's because time is precious. We save time for the things that matter most. A group message is sometimes considered SPAM. We don't have time to sort through all of it. Personally, I only read messages that are addressed to me.
In the past I sent my Writing Challenge notifications via a group message. I stopped doing that a few months ago. I realized that many of my friends are not interested in practising writing. Most friends probably didn't open my message because it was written to so many people. I realized my mistake. Now I only notify friends who have shown interest in my challenges. I write my message on their walls. Hopefully other friends who stop by their walls will see my invite too.
This is only my opinion. Do you agree with me? Please share your comments below.
Thank you to all of my friends who have taken the time to write a personal letter. Sometimes these notes get lost because my inbox is full of group messages. Unless you have a private concern or question, please consider writing your thoughts, introductions, or questions on my wall. I will do my best to write back on your wall or leave a comment on your blog.
Your friend,
Tara
Comments
Thanks for your opinion! Looking forward to the writing challenge submission. You are right about the mass emailing being easier. Unfortunately, it is abused by many so people like me don't read these exchanges. (We get too many.)
In my perspective there is nothing wrong in using the reply all feature of my EC because it saves time. And also that feature was created to make replying and sending notifications much easy.
I received your writing challenge notifications however I was not able to write in your writing challenge because I hardly open my account (EC account). Right now I'm finishing writing challenge #18
One more thing I want to add here is the use of the option of replying to a message. Sometimes when a member receives a group message from his or her friend he just replied to the message and send it to the same group without paying attention to whom the message is being sent. Once I received a group message from Nafis, someone sent a reply to Nafis but sending the message to the same group, addressing every member of that group with the name of Nafis. Here,I am not concerned with the message and I received it. So, I will neither read it nor send a reply.
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