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I've always thought these "email is dead or shortly will be" articles to be wildly presumptuous. The argument is generally that the tween/teen demographic hardl
by retube 16y ago
I've always thought these "email is dead or shortly will be" articles to be wildly presumptuous. The argument is generally that the tween/teen demographic hardly ever uses e-mail, and instead use facetwitsquarespace, hence as they grow up email will die out.
This argument is missing one huge point: what happens when these people go to work? How many businesses will want internal communications delivered over social networks?
Email, although far from perfect, is a wonderful work tool. It's private, it's asynchronous, it's distributed, it's cheap. I don't see this being replaced by social messaging.
- Cmccann7 16y agoI agree, almost all B2B communication is still via email. Also there is the argument of how do you get your facebook/twitter DM notifications? Mostly through email. Even all of these social services ask for an email when you sign up and send emails to drive you back to the site. Facebook is now one of the largest senders of email in the world..
- retube 16y agoYes good point. I only ever log in to fb if I get an email alert. However, I imagine that a lot of (younger?) fb users are, like I am with email, permanently logged in, so they see stuff coming in. Yeah - the B2B point also valid. "Uh, yeah, I'm just gonna message you this contract on facebook". I don't think so.