Unit Three - Be A Netizen
Be A Netizen
(a) Read the extract and underline the words which suggest that the emails are fast, cheap and an easy communication tool.Email stands for electronic mail. Slowly and gradually email has replaced the ordinary postal mails or snail mails.
Having an email address is like having a postal address in a global village of internet. If you do not have one, you do not exist in today’s virtual world.
The reasons for popularity of email are many. Emails can be archived, saved, retrieved and e-mail is eco-friendly as people rarely take print outs of the mails. The main reason is its ease of access as anybody can access it on phone at the cost of cheap internet, anytime, anywhere. Email writing is easy but its different from writing text messages. Text Message is informal and a rapid sharing of thoughts between two acquaintances. Emails are written and read by professionals, however, both arrive in Inbox.
Like a citizen has his own home address, let’s sign up for the email and be a netizen. There are many free email service providers like Google, Yahoo, Outlook, Rediff, iCloud etc.
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