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April 25, 2005
Email Mooditude
Communication these days happens alot over email or IM, which is primarily text-based. The invention of emoticons :) was a great way to express mood, attitude, facial expression, and otherwise nonverbal behavior through the use of simple keystrokes. LiveJournal goes a step further by allowing bloggers to attach a 'mood' to a post ("I'm hungry" / "I'm bored", etc.).
So, how about extending this concept to email? Imagine if you could send/receive email with a 'mood' label, similar to how you can label things 'important'? Then if you received an email from a friend or family member, the mood of the email could help determine if you need/want to read that message right away. Sure, ideally, you would read every email you received right away, but many of us are getting bombarded by 25, 50, 100+ messages a day, and adding a special helper label like this might actually get people to read certain types of messages more often.
Posted by MaTT at April 25, 2005 12:46 AM
Comments
Mooditude--hmmm, I like that word. I think by using this kind of label, it would actually enhance the email system, because maybe one would respond quicker by sensing the "mood" of the person (or maybe not respond so quickly!)
Posted by: Mom at April 25, 2005 09:55 PM
Yeah, you know, it can be difficult to read someone's tone in an email. Things like sarcasm, annoyance, or joking around can easily be misconstrued. Maybe something like this could help.
Posted by: at April 26, 2005 10:42 AM
D'oh! Somehow my name and email got lost when I posted that last comment - sorry!
Posted by: Jeremiah at April 26, 2005 10:44 AM
Hi, just popped in here through a random link. Cool site, keep this good work up :-)
Posted by: at May 21, 2005 10:42 AM