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i'm going to be the one to say it - get over yourself MG. twitter was the "end of email". facebook was the "end of email". IM was the "end of email". SMS was e
by timmyd 15y ago
i'm going to be the one to say it - get over yourself MG.
twitter was the "end of email". facebook was the "end of email". IM was the "end of email". SMS was email "end of email". Google+ is now the "end of email". no no ... wait wait wait Apple iMessage is now the "end of email".
yet so email lives on and is still the best communication medium we have on the planet that works and is as universally understood as SMS.
good luck writing interesting stories over the next month. or alternatively - be prepared for G+ spam, twitter+ spam and all the rest. you're just offsetting one advanced SPAM medium for ones which aren't as advanced in SPAM filtering [outrageous generalization :) but true]
- wladimir 15y agoFrom what I understand from the article, it seems that he has another problem (information overload from too many people trying to contact him), not so much a problem with e-mail as a medium.
- timmyd 15y ago@wladimir - yeah I get that but it gets a bit tiring when every medium is the "next email" and now he's "quiting email" and then he'll "return to email" ... blah blah
- vacri 15y ago"That doesn’t mean I’ll respond to all of these alternative communications either — I suspect they’ll build up quickly too. But at least it will be a nice big barrier to entry that will help to alleviate my inbox overload." Yes, this isn't an email problem, it's a chaff problem. It's with some irony that I note the comments section has probably the most visual chaff of any I've seen apart from those gamer boards where people compete for biggest stupidly large signature. and... oh god, there's a second comments section for the facebookers, too. Yeesh. This guy rolls in chaff. It's not email's fault.
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