Are you using e-mail to hammer screws?

E-mail is one of the most used and most abused technologies. Perhaps those two go hand in hand as something that is more often used has the potential to be abused as well. A lot of people will use e-mail because they know it and are comfortable with it but more often than not it can be like using a hammer when a screw driver is the tool for the job. Yes, the “job may get done but more often than not you will wind up making a mess and causing more problems than fixing them.
Among some of the ways e-mail is used when they are better tools are;

• Sending large files
• Sending short “chatty” messages
• rebroadcasting rumors and hoaxes
• sending and receiving newsletters
• sending confidential information
• Sharing photos

Are you using e-mail to do the above? Do you know about FTP (secure ftp preferred), Instant messaging, microblogging, free blogs, using an RSS news reader, the telephone, photo sharing sites, social networks, etc?

Would you use other tools besides e-mail if you knew about the other tools better? How can we help?