This can only be said by someone who doesn't use IM "properly". IM is: - asynchronous (vs. f2f or calls) - multi-format (text, audio, video or files) - s

This can only be said by someone who doesn't use IM "properly". IM is: - asynchronous (vs. f2f or calls) - multi-format (text, audio, video or files) - searchable (vs. f2f, calls and in my case email which is horrible to archive/search stuff) - phone-centered (vs. email which is computer-centered) I hate to write mails only with my phone, sometimes (e.g. when driving) I don't want to write a message but speak something instead. Obviously also the possibility to quickly capture something with your mobile-camera and share it via IM was not considered. How practical is this scenario with a computer? Not much. E-Mail is old technology and nearly no-one adapted it to our present time (don't know if it's just the protocols used or mainly the apps to interact with it). Group chats are also much more pleasant with IM's, the feature to @-mention users in itself is something I desperately miss from E-Mail (I am talking about name-suggestions when I type the @ and about notification of that user that I mentioned him). It could go on like this but I think there's enough on the table to show that E-Mail is not an alternative to IM and IM is not useless.