What I have increasingly seen (not because of the NSA - most of my friends just assume the government are watching - they grew up on 24 and Jason Bourne) - is t

What I have increasingly seen (not because of the NSA - most of my friends just assume the government are watching - they grew up on 24 and Jason Bourne) - is that email is just not something they use much. I'm told that email is all "spam", by which they mean followups to services they signed up with, not really spam, but not personal communications either. For them, personal communications is increasingly switching to txt/iMessages. The interactivity, the ability to be in a conversation is more natural than email where you write something, toss it over the fence at some MTA. The NSA might just be watching the wrong channel. Obviously they are no doubt snooping iMessages, but if someone wanted to NSA proof their "email", maybe instead they should just forget email all together and think about mobile, point to point solutions. I used to use bbm before they have up on releasing new phones (something they have since done, but too late for me) - they used to have a decide pin you could use to make point to point encrypted messaging - it was easy to use and I assume reasonably secure. Maybe something like that is far better than even bothering with email.