Email Vs IM

E-Mail stands for Electronic Mail. Emails are used for sending text, images and other forms of multimedia, to other people via the internet or other computers on the network.

The advantages of Email are as follows:
1. You can send someone an email when they are not by their computer, or an electronic device that they can acquire they emails. So that when they get to their computer they can see the email, and then they can reply when they get it and send you one back for you to read.
2. On Emails you can send attachments for another person to see, such as sending an image, that you want the other person to see, then they will have that picture to, also you could send a video.
The disadvantages of Email are:
1. If you try send a video via an email, the problem you may have is that the video will be to big a file size for the email to attach and send, though for you would have to shrink the file size, and this could distort the video so it will not be as good.
2. The second would be that when you sned the email, you cannot tell when the other person has received the email, therefore if the email is important, and needs to be replied to, you will not know if the person has received it until the reply, and you could be waiting until after the importace of the email has run out.

IM stands for Instant Messaging. IMs are used for talking to people that are on at the same time as you and they respond straight away and you can talk like a face-to-face chat.

The disadvantages of IMs are:
1. If the person that you want to talk to is not on then you will have to wait until they come on and then you will be able to talk to them.
2. With IMs you can send item over the chat, however if the person that is sending the items, or the person receiving the items should happen to go offline then, the item that is being sent will stop. If the persons internet connection is not good then they could be trying to send the items for a long time.
However the advantages of IMs are:
1. you can talk to someone the other side of the planet and you would still be able to talk to them like they where right next to you, and if you have a web cam on you computer, then you would be able to see the person as well as talk to them, which makes it seem more personal.
2. Also IMs are good to talk to people that you might have lost contact with over the years and want to talk to them again.