Facebook seemed to promise something better than email. Yet email is an open standard and so will still be part of all of our daily lives long after FB is a mem

Facebook seemed to promise something better than email. Yet email is an open standard and so will still be part of all of our daily lives long after FB is a memory or a niche. We moan about email but it gives us choice - free with ads or paid and ad free, basic or full featured. For keeping in touch with friends I find email, phone, Skype and train 'n boats 'n planes work pretty well.