>From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading of

>From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading off to University. This is correct. I am the only person I can think of in my school that uses email as their primary means of contact. May have something to do with my largest customers being email addicts, but I prefer it to SMS or phone calls. >Google tried a similar messaging system, as many suggest (Wave), but they positioned it for the enterprise/business customer. Perhaps the wrong demographic, maybe Facebook gets it right? I always thought of Wave as targeted towards developers and their ilk, and were hoping for something similar to the adoption and creation of mashups that they saw with Google Maps. Unfortunately, they didn't provide any easy way to do this and the product tanked, but it was great when I used it. It didn't help that their was no way to receive notifications other than going to Wave itself; maybe something like email would've been a help...