I struggle with considering email a “legacy medium.” On one hand, I rarely use email as a form of communication but on the other, I still receive a ton of emails. Email definitely hit its peak of popularity about 20 years ago, but it is still a favored way for professors and students to communicate. The article was helpful to me because I seriously struggle with email etiquette.

It’s rare that I use email to communicate with anyone other than my professors, so I’m not super practiced with it. For me, I wouldn’t say writing the email itself is the hard part, it’s more about how to address the recipient. I don’t want to be too formal, but I also don’t want to be too informal. Besides that fact, I really don’t mind email as a way of communication.

In a sense email could be considered a legacy medium. I mean it has been replaced with faster communication (texting/calling), but I also think that email allows us to communicate in a way that texting or calling doesn’t. Email has evolved to stay relevant in this day and age by allowing us to share documents or pictures. I can’t count how many times in high school I would just email my teacher my assignments instead of printing them out or saving them on a flash drive. In a way, email has made flash drives a thing of the past.

All in all, I think email is still a useful tool that has just been downgraded to a specific set of uses.