Send A Tone Proof Email? Try ToneCheck
By skysuccess
@skysuccess (8857)
Singapore
July 22, 2010 4:14am CST
Have you ever felt baffled by some of your replies from your friends?
Like asking what did I do to deserve this?
But, have you stopped to check if your email that you've rushed off unintentionally has been taken offense by the other party at the receiving end?
Well, studies by Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2006 have shown that e-mail messages are interpreted incorrectly 50% of the time.
If you are worried or concerned now, you should be glad that a technology firm has come up a system which it claims will stop misunderstandings in emails by analyzing the phrases you use to see what tone they create.
ToneCheck, developed by Canadian firm Lymbix, works as an add-on to Microsoft’s Outlook email service and checks the tone of your email in the same way a spell-checker does.
After you have composed an email, you simply hit Tonecheck button and it scans the email and tells you the dominant tone of the message.
The service currently is available as a download from today and is free for the first 30 days.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296498/This-email-sounds-angry-New-tone-checker-tells-impression-email-REALLY-gives.html
Download:
http://tonecheck.com
2 responses
@PDBME2 (1014)
• United States
22 Jul 10
It is not only e-mails that get confusing but also sometimes comments made on Facebook or MySpace. I remember reading something a person posted which made most of the comments made back defensive. I felt it was offensive also because the person posted that "all Christians seemed to be practicing religion falsely therefore they shouldn't attend their church if they were going to be fake". After having repeated negative comments about it the person wrote back saying it wasn't directed at just Christians but more towards parenting.
Now I wrote back telling the person that should have thought about what they were going to write before they wrote it. They had to admit that it was not worded correctly, and it sparked off negativity. Is it the tone or should we just really be careful on how we word comments such as these, it was not the first time something like this had been written. I took a legal writing class that our instructor told us we had to sound neutral on what we wrote, especially if a case goes to court. Give the facts without using comments that made you think you were for or against the facts.
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@damned_dle (3942)
• Philippines
22 Jul 10
TONE check? lol. I don't read email messages from my friends anymore. Most of them just send sms messages or facebook messaging. But going back to your discussion, 50% sounds awfully a LOT of misinterpretation!!! Surely that goes INTERNATIONALLY right? It can only come from non english speaking countries.
