Email Like Your Are Texting with EOM
Fri, Oct 10, 2008
I got an email from my girlfriend today with the subject line: “What time are you getting home EOM”
I was a little curious about whether this EOM was a typo or a new nickname she’s given me, and when I clicked into the message there was nothing in the body.
I emailed her back and asked “What’s with the EOM” and she responded “It means End of Message. It’s a way to save time by letting you know there’s no body to the msg, just that quick question,” and sent this link. I responded, “Well it didn’t work that well did it because we’ve emailed each other 4 times now and you still don’t know what time I’m getting home ; )”
I didn’t get a response to that, so clearly she was not amused, but despite my response, I think this is a great idea… providing people know what it means. I am actually going to try and get everyone here at VizQuest on board with this convention. I think it’s great for a few reasons:
- It saves time for quick messages not to have to click into the message, particularly when I’m checking my email on my Treo.
- It forces people to be concise. The only thing that annoys me more than an a rambling email is when people leave a voice mail message saying “call me back.” If that’s all you had to say you could have sent a page or a text and saved me the time of dialing into my voice mail… but that’s a topic for another post.
- It guarantee’s people will read it. When I’m short on time I’ll just scan through the subject lines looking for something important, but with an EOM message, important or not, I get the whole message and I breeze through.
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