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>> _why_ communication has moved away from email > Has it, though? I don't think we are any step closer now to dropping email than we were 25 years ago. Email
by spurgu 6y ago
>> _why_ communication has moved away from email
> Has it, though? I don't think we are any step closer now to dropping email than we were 25 years ago.
Email feels more like a tool for reaching out than for communicating to me. I.e. it serves like an RSS feed and serves like a way for unknowns (or long lost friends/acquaintances) to reach out to you.
Sure some people still use newsgroups and communicate daily over email, but for most people it's just a method to sign up for accounts in walled gardens.
- messo 6y agoThe email protocol is being used for instant messaging — check out DeltaChat. It works much better than I expected, and it is possibly the most desentralized solution there is.
- ezst 6y agoWell, I don't know in which world you live, but in mine Outlook is alive and kicking, that's where purchase orders are confirmed, meetings with suppliers are organized, business decisions are made … and in the few instances where it's not going over Outlook, it's because it's on a GApps tenant, in which case it's GMail instead. The biggest threat to outlook and email today is probably MSTeams, and ironically enough, it federates just fine so that two employees from two distinct companies can chat as if they were on the same tenant.
- spurgu 6y ago> Well, I don't know in which world you live, but in mine Outlook is alive and kicking, that's where purchase orders are confirmed, meetings with suppliers are organized, business decisions are made Stuff like that was what I meant. I wouldn't call receipts, calendar invitations and verification emails "communication" (as in person to person). I agree though that email is a prime medium for B2B communication, but within a company you'd usually use another medium (like Slack).