To: Jingle1692@hotmail.co.uk

Email is a way for people to send letters, pictures, videos and other attachments via the internet to another email address, it is faster that traditional "snail mail" and is immune to postal strikes which is an enormous advantage, not to mention it saves paper in an age where resources are dwindling. They are big, allowing anywhere from 10mb to over 1gb to be sent, depending on your provider, Gmail etc.

Instant Messaging is a way of communicating like email, but is.. well, instant, it requires the user and the recipient to be on the same server to chat, the most popular example is windows live messenger (MSN),  microsofts IM service, IM requires both users to be online and allows them to have a normal convosation through typing as opposed to talking, in real time, compared to emails which need the recipient to look at their inbox, read the message and then reply. Though email does have the advantage that the person you are sending the mail to can be offline.