Instant Messaging Or Writing Emails? Which do you prefer?

I think Writing Emails are better than Instant Messaging because Emails Writing is safe than IM and it is Secure thats why i am prefer do Emails but other side if you want to say hi hello so its better Instant Messaging.... hhhmmmmmmmmm Can't Say Exactly....... :)

of course i prefer instant Messaging from the word instant you can received and reply immediately from the person where you'll send the message. you don't need to wait.

Hello hexebella, Well, spending a few minutes to chat is worth it, but not more than an hour at the maximum. I don't do that either, i am not one of the chatting people types, although long before i really liked to do that and would be online most of the time, but it's different now. I get online when there is something important i want to do. I am no longer a fan of the IM's. I don't email much either, but yeah if there is something interesting i want to share then email is probably the best thing. Have to agree with that. I don't see email and IM's stand together, i mean i don't compare them. Both have different purposes and are a little different too. Good day.

Hi, For me, it is depend on who and how important is the message I am going to tell another party. If another party is online and convenience,then I will use instant messaging service to chat directly with him/her,or else, I will send him/her an email. Sending an instant messaging can definitely save times and will get the reply instantly.

For me it depends on the occasion or a case or the location or urgency of something to deal with. My husband is in the US and I am here in the Philippines. We're so grateful for technology that makes us closer together though we far from each geographically. We used skype most of the time. It's more lively with cam, mic, etc. But in some matters like we need to do and submit documents for each other to read or review we used email. On the other hands, Emails is good too especially if we want to treasure our communication and keep it. I am planning to print our talks in Skype but I guess, it takes a 1 bound of bond paper...need to pick up some important things. I guess Im's is good for chit chat, everyday update and people who wants to type short messages at a time. But If the person you want to communicate well live in the province that go to the computer shop once in week or in month I guess email is the best idea.:)

ermm i think i prefer Instant Messaging. coz it's easy like talking to the other person. It's fun and convenient according to me. But well i like writing e-mails too. Actually I like them both =D

For me, they are about the same. It mostly depends on whether I need to get an answer right away or if there is no rush, but also if the person I need to talk to is online at the time or not. Sometimes, I will tell the person to contact me on IM because I can't see them online. In those instances, email is better. But if I had emails going back and forth very quickly, I would ask them to switch over to IM so that there wouldn't be so much wait time to get an answer. If I have a lot to say, email is better because it is hard to follow chat messages in a small chat window.

I engage in emails, FB & YM, but the way and the manner i use them is depend on the necessity at the moment. Often, for official matters or business related matters i always do it in emails. In FB, i usually spend my leisure time there, just to update myself with my friends and relatives, more of some personal note, while in YM i rarely visit this one, unless a relative of mine abroad would request that they talk to me thru YM.

i prefer e-mail , because we can read a full massage for what we think but so slow to get respond mostly mail to big company

E-Mails one hundred percent. Instant Messaging is just a time wasting thing and I am not a really big fan of it. I can really understand how many people would really enjoy spending a lot of time dealing with instant messaging. However, to say the very least, it is not my cup of tea. So I tend to really stick with e-mails, as it allows me to get my thoughts out in a clear and concise manner and it allows me to offer a little more thought, while instant messaging is just a bit more off the cuff.

For me, i prefer instant messaging because we can get the respond immediately just after we ask. But email, we have to wait and we are also not sure that our friend will check email or not, when will he/she check his mailbox and etc. But Instant messaging is different. If my friend didn't give me respond, i will ask again and again until he/she give me feedback.

I use them both, but I'm more interested in IMs actually. I admit, each has its uses and good times to send each. For keeping in touch with online friends and to tell the dumb things about life, I prefer MSN and Skype, they are good and I feel like I'm actually talking with them, and is the closest I can be to a real life meeting with an online friend, more if they have webcams. Emails are good for pinging people I didn't see in a long time, maybe those friends that haven't been in MSN for a long time or those that I don't know his whereabouts. Maybe an email simply telling "how are you" is a good thing to make them remember I exist and I care about them. For me, my emails are often short and telling trivial things or asking for a meeting personally or on MSN. And on those meetings we talk about all those non-sense things that we like.

Overall, I prefer IMing to emails, but it can change for individual situations. I'm personally very thankful no one at work knows about the messenger that comes with the Office software. IMs offer me instant gratification, and I only talk to people with who I WANT to talk to, so I'm not wasting my time.

I prefer instant messaging because it's so much faster, email takes forever. A 5 minute conversation on a instant messaging service can take months on email.

It depends on who I'm talking to. With my boyfriend I prefer IM. With certain friends I just prefer to email them once in a while. I'm not naturally a talkative person so I sometimes don't have a lot to say and on IM I might have a conversation then I might not say anything for a few minutes and I don't want to seem like I am ignoring them I just don't have anything else to say. With some people I have a lot more to say than with other people.

Hi I prefer writing mails because i am not very comfortable typing on my mobile phone. Also you have limitations when you type a SMS and you need to fit your entire message within that limit. But when you are writing an email, you can write a more detailed message.

I use instant messaging more often than sending emails to people I know. I think it's a lot more convenient for me. I'm not addicted to IM's, it's just that I only use them when I want to say something to a particular person. Long emails would take more of my time, I think. I send out private messages though when a person I want to talk to is not online on any chatbox or IM's I have. I try not to get addicted to them 'cause they would eat up most of my time and lesser time for me to do more productive things during my day.

I prefer the chats or IM's. They're faster and more fun. Some of them even have emoticons included which make your chatting more cool. Emails take some time but they're good as well. The main difference is time. Chats are faster and that's why i prefer them to emails.

hi hexebella,just like you,I prefer writing emails to instant messaging.I don't think I am good at chatting with people about life bagatelle.It's easier for me to write down my thoughts slowly and i enjoy the expectations on receiving replies when waiting.Instant messaging just makes me don't know what to say.

I like using email for both a one-off message, or an ongoing conversation that is not time dependent or doesn't require much attention (though, email is sometimes also the best way of getting someone's attention), but I also do not prefer IMing. I much prefer a group-chat, such as IRC; to be able to have a conversation with multiple people, and a more active scenario is my personal preference.