I can see a subtle change over time in the way email is used. Less as a communication between people, and more as a notification device when someone replies back to you via the other types of communications. Twitter DMs are essentially emails, and I find out about them via actual email.
gwalter
· 1 year ago
For me, over the last couple of years, email is more of a communication input - I find myself replying less and less. Indeed, there are some uses of email (time shifting convos, communicating with groups, setting appts, etc) that make it easy. But I agree that apps like Twitter and various forums allow for more of a community feel to the conversation - and therefore are more appealing.
ashrafism
· 1 year ago
I think that there is plenty of room for e-mail to improve. That said, it will still leads the pack of communication applications/platforms; for a simple reason its simplicity.
Albert Willis
· 1 year ago
Good points. As early adopters of new technology, we have lots of choices for communicating; most people are mostly doing email and maybe IM. Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, etc. aren't mainstream tools--at least not yet.
Email is going to be with us for a long time.
Avatar X
· 1 year ago
E-mail is safe for the foreseeable future because:
1.-it is evolving. it is not like the evolution of E-mail has ever stopped. 2.-It will eventually be "live". when E-mail gets to be as live as twitter. what would be E-mail shortcoming then? = none 3.-E-mail will go the same way start pages did. it will become a Social Networking hub all by itself. a simple look at yahoo e-mail demo from CES, Gmail concepts for the future , the new AOL mail done in silverlight and MS own e-mail version done in silverlight tapped with Windows Live Services API`s (yeah, i know very few people have seen the theoretical scenarios around that, but still) and you got that E-mail can be the most powerful thing for communication.
So. yeah E-mail is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. i think the next time people get to discuss if E-mail is going away will be by 2020. :P
Gabriel Suppiah
· 1 year ago
I am pretty sure Email is not safe with the loads of junk mail I receive.
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Email is going to be with us for a long time.
1.-it is evolving. it is not like the evolution of E-mail has ever stopped.
2.-It will eventually be "live". when E-mail gets to be as live as twitter. what would be E-mail shortcoming then? = none
3.-E-mail will go the same way start pages did. it will become a Social Networking hub all by itself. a simple look at yahoo e-mail demo from CES, Gmail concepts for the future , the new AOL mail done in silverlight and MS own e-mail version done in silverlight tapped with Windows Live Services API`s (yeah, i know very few people have seen the theoretical scenarios around that, but still) and you got that E-mail can be the most powerful thing for communication.
So. yeah E-mail is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. i think the next time people get to discuss if E-mail is going away will be by 2020. :P