Canadian blogger (and Tucows tech guru) AccordianGuy has some interesting thoughts on why breakup e-mails listing what's wrong with the break-up-ee (if that's a word) in bullet listsare becoming more common.
His guess: the effects that PowerPoint has wrought upon the culture.
I think that the "Dear Jane" emails that those people received were inspired by elements of office culture: PowerPoint, project post-mortems and annual performance reviews. Of the people who told me that they were dumped via email, all of their boyfriends worked white-collar jobs in which they either sat through or made PowerPoint presentations.
When I did a story on PowerPoint last year, I was amazed to find that there's widespread hatred of the program. Much of the opposition comes from people who believe that the way PowerPoint forces presenters into dumbed-down, overly simplistic presentations doesn't just make for boring meetings, but actually warps the way people think.
Posted by tgibbons at August 2, 2004 04:16 PM