E-mail stands for Electronic Mail. It is the transmission of messages and files via a computer network. For example memos, reports and personal messages through a computer network. Some time ago, Email was only used by large organizations, but now it is widely used by everyone,
whether it be a student to communicate with his or her class fellows or parents to communicate with their children's teachers or it could simply be used by anyone just to communicate with their relatives and friends. Email has made our life easier. The main thing is that we don't have to walk to the letter box!
     Long time ago, when one could not dream of email (or I should say internet), people used to write letters which took a long time to reach one's place. Letters are written nowadays as well but the majority uses emails.
In order to receive or send email you need to have an email address and you need to know the address of the person to whom you wish to send a message.
 

Advantages
There are many advantages using email, some of them are:

• Email is good to make appointments for busy people.

• Email can distribute information quickly to many people.

• Email can also be used to communicate with more than one person at a time , to conveniently schedule meetings.

 

Disadvantages:
Besides its advantages, it no doubt have some disadvantages as well. For example:

• Email can become time consuming.

• Email can become impersonal or misunderstood.

• Viruses can also lurk through email.

• Junk mail is also a very big problem nowadays.