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Privacy issues aside, please don't. These kinds of features are outright harmful to our society.

Human communication and our social skills in general have already detoriated a lot by replacing face to face conversations with audio only, then text.

This is just further taking away the incentive to sneak in something personal, something human into our written communication every now and then.

IMO, the very reason someone takes the time to type out these kinds of questions as an email message is to make it more personal. Otherwise, they could just use an rsvp/calendar system or a bug tracker for the particular queries in the article, which already enable you to send such generic replies with 1 or 2 taps at most.

Can we stop misusing technology to dumb down our everyday lives and stop transforming our society into a bunch of isolated individuals living on the same planet?




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