Clicking on the little paper clip icon in an email to attach a document in an email is normal to me. I do this several times each day, never wondering what will happen when I hit "send." But fax machines are different. They buzz and beep and have special procedures for buttons and inserting paper. You need cover sheets and look for confirmation sheets. They just don't make sense. Once you put the paper through the mini-printer-looking thing...it goes off into Never, Never Land through a phone line and pops out in some office somewhere else in the world. It just doesn't make sense.
I consider myself rather technologically competent. I'm not a tech junkie and don't have the latest and greatest gadgets all the time, but I do consider myself at least slightly tech savvy. Nonetheless, as I fill out medical reimbursement forms for physical therapy, I find myself hand-writing the blank spaces on the paper, finding envelops and looking for a stamp. I can't bring myself to fax them. It seems crazy to put my personal information on a form like that and send it off into Never, Never Land. What if it gets sent to the wrong office? How do I know who's picking it up when it spits out the other end? What if it never makes it there? I realize that these are completely ridiculous questions, and that fax machines have been tried and tested throughout the past couple of decades, but I don't care. They're creepy
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Actually fax machines are probably more secure than email because they connect directly from one fax machine to another. Emails go from server to server on the internet. Who knows how many people can intercept and view them en route :).
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