Do you prefer a phone call over an email?

It depends actually...

I prefer email when there are things to be stored such :

• a list of directions from my senior, colleague,  or client,
• a list of specifications from my vendor, senior, client, tax consultant, etc
• a document or group of documents
• a large amount of data, especially if technical
• some decision taken on an official subject

I also prefer emails where something is to be easily deleted

• some deal offered for diet pills, lottery, exercise machine, etc. (I would've been upset if I got calls on these matters)

I prefer phone calls for immediate action -- like a call for meeting a deadline, sending or receiving a document or product.

I also like a phone call (esp video phone call) from near and dear ones, if meeting face-to-face is not feasible.

Replies to email can be sent at your convenient time.Normally a person phones up when it is convenient to him.This need not necessarily be convenient to the other person.

Email  should be preferred over phone because of the fact that it can be retained, referred and documented at any given movement of time.

In current scenario e-mail wins over a phone call as it can be considered as an instant evidence of the communications whenever required in future. Also both phone call & e-mail can be recorded in respective forms but it is easy to store an e-mail than a phone call recording now a days. 

In current scenario e-mail wins over a phone call as it can be considered as an instant evidence of the communications whenever required in future. Also both phone call & e-mail can be recorded in respective forms but it is easy to store an e-mail than a phone call recording now a days.      

In all respects an e-mail is the best written/recorded proof.

Thanks for the referral Ms.Purvi

Email has more features than a phone call. Both these things have different utilities. For immediate and short talks phone is the only answer. But E mail has multi features like sending detailed reports, attaching letters, documents, pictures and even videos, therefore both have different roles but email definitely has an edge over phone calls. It can be kept as an evidence also as what whas the content of conversation.

Anyday an email will be better since all the details are jotted down and a record remains in writing.Puravi I agree with you totally on the subject.

Phone call may interrupt you any time, even though you are not in a position to receive the call. It disturbs a lot. Whereas Email can be checked at your own convenient, without any kind of disturbances. But, in-case of emergency a phone call is preferable.

Most of the time phone calls are informal, whereas Emails are mostly formal and can be checked and rechecked before sending it to the receiver. But phone call is spontaneous, where probability of making mistake is more.

I think an Email is better.....and a phone call would be a lot of intrusive kind of a thing everytime, if a mail is dropped then one can easily check at a proper time and phone call would make things difficult for that person, how manytimes will a person receive calls for each and everything. So Email would be better as one can properly go through it and come to a proper conclusion than over a phone where one might miss something while they are communicating. So an Email is a better option than a phone call, but I know that many would not agree with me on this..