I have been joining online forums and groups. To date, I am a member of one google group, one MSN group and four Yahoo groups. People join these groups for different purposes, but the main purpose is to engage in interactive discussions and contribute to various topics as a member.
Thus, once we have something to share in the forum, we will email the group and then everyone in the group will see what we have written. Things have been pretty interesting. I cannot say things are always so wholesome, because there will be people who disagree with you or feel offended over things you say. At times, one either refrain from being too sensitive or just keep silent.
However, if one is to join a group and then send an email to the group, one is to expect that everyone in the group will get to see his / her email. That is why people chose to join the group in the first place - to have their opinions read / heard and contribute to the forum! So, if someone is to send an email to the group, everyone in the group will get to read it.
If one wants to just speak to a certain individual, he / she can just send a personal email to the individual, and not the whole group! If what one says is only for someone and not others, then there are other means of communicating and contact, right?
But people, probably being the lazy and "convenient" beings they are, will just click on the most convenient link - the email address of the group. Normally, the moderator or the members have their own individual emails. If one only bothers to check, they will know. But some do not bother even checking, and just click on the default email, then when the message was sent to the whole group, he / she starts panicking as people get to see the name and the query, so may start getting sensitive about the issue at hand.
Then the person again reply to the whole group, asking the moderator or person in-charge to remove the email just so the name and the message will not be broadcast to all. In the first place, if one joins a group and emails to the group, one should expect the message to be broadcasted to all. In the second place, if the person really does not want the message to be broadcasted to all, he / she should have checked the email address of the addressee and then send a personal email, instead of to the whole group.
Even if the message was accidentally sent to everyone, there would be a delete or remove icon to remove the whole post. If the person does not even bother doing that, why panic and then ask the addressee to remove the post? It is not the addressee's business. It is the sender who had the message to convey, so how can the sender then turn around and ask the addressee not to broadcast the message or remove it from being broadcast?
Is that not just so ridiculous? It is just a small simple thing, yet is someone expected to do that for you when it was your own mistake in the first place? At times, incidences like these, one can size up one's character very fast. Which is why impressions do count. If people go around creating impressions that are not that good, it is hard for anyone to go beyond the first impression and comment on anything positive.
Which is why a certain contender for the United States Vice-President is now in hot soup, for the shallow things that have been done. Politics is never clean, but still, showing the world how "idiotic" one is makes matters worse!
Thus, once we have something to share in the forum, we will email the group and then everyone in the group will see what we have written. Things have been pretty interesting. I cannot say things are always so wholesome, because there will be people who disagree with you or feel offended over things you say. At times, one either refrain from being too sensitive or just keep silent.
However, if one is to join a group and then send an email to the group, one is to expect that everyone in the group will get to see his / her email. That is why people chose to join the group in the first place - to have their opinions read / heard and contribute to the forum! So, if someone is to send an email to the group, everyone in the group will get to read it.
If one wants to just speak to a certain individual, he / she can just send a personal email to the individual, and not the whole group! If what one says is only for someone and not others, then there are other means of communicating and contact, right?
But people, probably being the lazy and "convenient" beings they are, will just click on the most convenient link - the email address of the group. Normally, the moderator or the members have their own individual emails. If one only bothers to check, they will know. But some do not bother even checking, and just click on the default email, then when the message was sent to the whole group, he / she starts panicking as people get to see the name and the query, so may start getting sensitive about the issue at hand.
Then the person again reply to the whole group, asking the moderator or person in-charge to remove the email just so the name and the message will not be broadcast to all. In the first place, if one joins a group and emails to the group, one should expect the message to be broadcasted to all. In the second place, if the person really does not want the message to be broadcasted to all, he / she should have checked the email address of the addressee and then send a personal email, instead of to the whole group.
Even if the message was accidentally sent to everyone, there would be a delete or remove icon to remove the whole post. If the person does not even bother doing that, why panic and then ask the addressee to remove the post? It is not the addressee's business. It is the sender who had the message to convey, so how can the sender then turn around and ask the addressee not to broadcast the message or remove it from being broadcast?
Is that not just so ridiculous? It is just a small simple thing, yet is someone expected to do that for you when it was your own mistake in the first place? At times, incidences like these, one can size up one's character very fast. Which is why impressions do count. If people go around creating impressions that are not that good, it is hard for anyone to go beyond the first impression and comment on anything positive.
Which is why a certain contender for the United States Vice-President is now in hot soup, for the shallow things that have been done. Politics is never clean, but still, showing the world how "idiotic" one is makes matters worse!
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