Thanks in advance!” or asking your spouse to pick up some bread on the way home and saying “thanks in advance!” before they can agree or respond. In the non-virtual world this might look something like asking a waiter: “Could you bring me another drink. Thus the “thanks in advance!” precedes any action or communication on their side. When you ask someone to do something over email by the time they read to the end of the email they have neither done what you have asked nor have agreed. However, in the world of email this is not the case. In the non-email world the “thank you” usually quickly follows the request because the action you have requested or at least agreement to carrying out that action quickly follows the request. In the non-email world it is a word you say after or during the action you are grateful for but not something you say concurrently with asking someone to do something. What do you imply when you use this phrase? Thanks or thank you is an expression of gratitude or acknowledgement of something someone has done.
I find this trend bordering on offensive. There is a new trend in email writing to send someone a request and then sign it with “Thanks in advance.” or even worse “Thanks in advance !!!“.
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