Critical Analysis of We've Got Mail Always

             Critical Essay: "We've Got Mail-Always"
             In "We've Got Mail-Always," Andrew Leonard effectively demonstrates how the use of E-mail is liable to be both a benefit and a setback. He provides the reader with a valid assessment as he gives series of examples and counterexamples, including personal anecdotes, and modern day examples though ultimately leaving the decision up to the audience. Although he is able to argue both sides of the coin, Leonard lacks the ability to recognize the middle of the two extremes.
             Leonard begins his article with the burning questions "Is Email a blessing or a curse?" (230). He points out that the modern world measures their technological status by the amount of E-mail one receives. His first premise states the fact that a majority of E-mail in the internet world consists of only irrelevant letters and forwards, deciding that E-mail is nothing more than a waste of time. Quickly; however, his article takes a turn, arguing that it is those few relevant letters that make E-mailing the key to not only boundless communication, but also limitless opportunities. Leonard goes on to explain how E-mailing not only "[transcends] physical limitations," but also "encourages the shy" by offering easy access and lack of confrontation. Thereby also promoting, on the other side of the extreme, a lack of self control, made evident by pornography.
             The author also notes that while E-mailing has attracted many to writing as a form of communication, it has promoted a false sense of literacy, as those people construct only meaningless, casual sentence fragments and abbreviations. In conclusion, Leonard adds that while E-mail does "demolish boundaries," it also makes privacy almost nonexistent, leaving the question of whether the email is a blessing or a curse up to you, the reader.
             Leonard's syntax provides the reader with an easy to fol...

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