Wednesday, March 14, 2007

THE DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITY BETWEEN SMS, E-MAIL AND CHAT.


Sms, chat and e-mail are very popular among people nowadays. People use all of this three things to communicate with each other. Sms, chat and email are the easiest way to communicate for the people who live in a difference places.

These 3 things have become important things in our daily life. It becomes popular because it is very simple, cheap and faster. There are some similarities between sms, chat and email. As you all can see, sms, chat and email are faster if we compare to the letters mailing because it will take a couple of day. Besides, sms, chat and email are very cheap.


If we look, sms only charge for 1 cent if we use the same service line provider, and for the different line provider it only cost us 20 cents. If we are having a chat, it only cost us RM2 at the cybercafé. The other similarity is in context of using short forms. Sms, chat and email use the same short forms like 'btw' for 'by the way', oic for 'oh..i see', r for 'are' in order to save time and space.


Now, let's look at the differences between sms, chat and email. For sms, we use a mobile phone to send a message but for email and chat we have to use a computer. Anyway, nowadays there is a lot of mobile phone that can send e-mail and also chat and that means it’s also will be the similarity.


Besides, chat is faster than email and sms. This is because chat is synchronous or online typed conversation. Email is a asynchronous or not simultaneous. Sms can be categorized as synchronous because it is also faster and depend to the receiver whether to reply it on time or not.

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