Microsoft Outlook Is the Worst Social Media Platform in the World

All professionals know this to be true

Evan Wildstein

--

Image: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels

Elon Musk is buying Twitter for the cost of roughly 2 billion boxes of Twinkies. And with that news, we seem to have forgotten about the other social media behemoth whose heft casts a $168 billion shadow over Twitter:

Microsoft.

Specifically, Microsoft Outlook… the worst, most vile, toxic social media platform in Internetland.

We’re on that social space every single day. Feeding it, being fed by it, sending CC’d messages (that should’ve been BCC’d) to thousands of unsuspecting bosses and colleagues ad nauseam.

And what do we have to show for it? How much psychological safety have we given up by being Outlook Sheep day in and day out? I’m not sure the world will ever know, but the problem is only getting worse.

“All my best…”

“Thanks in advance…”

“Can we circle back about this…”

All the other social giants have had their reckoning for the great strains they put on human beings — especially children — creating issues with “anxiety, depression, and physical ailments.”

But not Microsoft Outlook. It sits there in its ivory tower, destroying…

--

--

Evan Wildstein
Evan Wildstein

Written by Evan Wildstein

Words on work, organizational culture, and humor. More at https://evanwildstein.com.

Responses (2)