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at a certain rate of adoption doesn't that kind of become like "stop using email"
by stupidbird 8y ago
at a certain rate of adoption doesn't that kind of become like "stop using email"
- celticninja 8y agoI don't use Facebook, I presume thats the level of adoption you are talking about.
- OrderlyTiamat 8y agoMany people don't use facebook. I thinks WhatsApp is a better example, it's even more ubiquitous, though I'm sure there are still people who don't use it. Heck, I'm personally thinking of stopping, it's just that everyone is there. Two of my recent orders were negotiated by WhatsApp. It's used almost universally.
- mishac 8y agoI think that depends on what country you're in. The only people I know who are on whatsapp are immigrants who use it to talk to family in the old country.
- davidcbc 8y agoWhatsApp isn't even close to as ubiquitous as Facebook. WhatsApp has about 1.5 billion monthly active users compared to Facebook's 2.1 billion. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly... https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly-active-whatsapp-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly...
- OrderlyTiamat 8y agoInteresting, Doesn't match my experience. I'm wondering what the age distributions are on those. Thanks for correcting me!
- stupidbird 8y agoYeah precisely, we need some middle ground between "don't use it at all" or "have 0 control over your data"
- nine_k 8y agoFederated systems, like Mastodon (or, well, email), offer a rather reasonable balance, I suppose.
- rusk 8y agoNobody uses email any more ... I mean they use it but it's not a high-engagement medium. I'd guess nearly 90% of emails never get read.
- the_af 8y ago> Nobody uses email any more That's not my experience. I use email. At work they use email. My mom uses email.
- rusk 8y agoYeah I think I made my point kind of stupidly. Email is just "there" at this stage. Your emails appear in your inbox and you're not really constrained by a provider. I was taking aim more at the comparison with twitter and facebook which require constant engagement. With email you just get it the way you want it, on your terms mostly.
- dcow 8y agoGP: I’m convinced this is how people with poor email management skills feel. It’s how I felt until I stepped up my filter, unsubscribe, and delete game and really developed a strategy for managing my inbox. It’s not heavyweight but the goal is to reduce your inbox to a task/todo list of sorts—only the things you need to worry about. Might be a direct inquiry or a notification about an upcoming sale, etc. Eventually you get to a point where you realize that _everything_ uses email. The internet _is_ email. It’s just really easy to end up being bombarded by so much of it that it feels useless.
- JackFr 8y agoMy daughter is in a youth choir, whose director insists on communicating with parents via their Facebook page, which is of course not publicly viewable. I have told her that I will not join Facebook solely to be able to read communications from her. I offered her my phone number and email address, and so now for important things she will send an email as well. But she was absolutely incredulous that someone was not on Facebook in this day and age, and was not interested in joining.