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Nobody 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 ago
    Yeah 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.
    • beambot 8y ago
      > With email you just get it the way you want it, on your terms mostly. Sounds pretty perfect.
      • rusk 8y ago
        Email is far from perfect.
• dcow 8y ago
  GP: 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.
• mulmen 8y ago
  The only people who don’t use email are products.