Email Auto Complete is Sucking the Life Out of Communication - Medium

by **bdahm** Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:34 pm

If you’ve used Gmail any time recently, you’ll probably be familiar with Smart Reply and Smart Compose. Smart Reply is simple. Whenever you receive an email, three jaunty and heavily exclamation-pointed options pop up under its body: things like “Thank you!”or “That sounds great!” or “That works for me!” Click the option you like the best, edit (or don’t), and press send. Congratulations: an email that would have taken you 30 seconds to write has taken you two.

Smart Compose, on the other hand, helps you craft emails yourself. Up pops grayish text when you start to write an email, suggesting how you might like to end your sentence. You start writing “That sounds…” and “good to me!” appears. Like Smart Reply, it makes writing emails easier, faster, and far less mentally taxing.

https://onezero.medium.com/email-autocomplete-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-communication-86a17681e0e8

-Bill

by **cnxnoise** Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:11 pm

So I am in the minority in that (a) I get my gmail via Thunderbird and (b) I write pithy, detailed, probing answers?

I use email vice Line or similar media because I do write a lot in an email. And, if the subject is detailed enough to warrant it, I even edit and re-arrange paragraphs.

Email can be a very useful a tool for communications, if one wants it to be. In fact a good email is just a letter sent electronically.

by **bdahm** Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:32 am

Good for you, Peter. Perhaps instant messaging has carried over and somewhat infected email. In our rush for efficiency, we are draining the life out of email. And for what?

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