The Slowly Dying Fax

I was thinking about faxes yesterday because someone asked me for my fax number.  Now the fact is that I removed my fax line around nine months ago, and that it had been used for nothing but receiving junk faxes for a couple of years before that.  All my vendors and customers take purchase orders, invoices, and everything else via e-mail.

So I haven’t missed the fax until I was asked for a number I no longer have.  I can get faxes sent to a friend’s business, but that’s annoying.

Then today I found an article titled Faxing it In on Culture11.com, which pretty much expressed my feelings.  Why use faxes at all?  The article explores why faxes still hold on when it’s so easy to scan and e-mail.

On the other hand, I must note that I still like to get snail-mail copies of contracts signed in actual ink, so in some ways I’m so last century.  We each have our hangups!