Preventing Email Gaffes

Written by Sue Walsh on April 21, 2009

NPR’s Blog of the Nation blog has a humorous article about email blunders. We’ve all got one in our history, admit it! Here’s an excerpt:email-at1

Have you ever hit “reply-all” to an e-mail when you wanted only the sender to see your snarky remarks about the boss? Or received an e-mail from a friend you want to pass along to others, including your caustic comments about his girlfriend, but hit “reply” instead of “forward?” 

Email gaffes can be merely embarrassing or downright career threatening. To avoid them, there are a few things you can do. First, never email when angry, intoxicated or otherwise not in a calm and rational mood. Second, double check your spellchecker! The auto-correct feature isn’t always well… correct. Third, resist the temptation to hit Reply All unless absolutely necessary, always use BCC rather than CC and check and double check the TO: line before hitting that send button.

We’d like to know your most embarrassing email gaffe. Leave a comment and share!

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