Email is so last year

Do you use platforms like Twitter, Facebook and IM in preference of email?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 14.2%

  • No

    Votes: 133 85.8%
  • Total voters
    155
Email is still the killer app.
It will take a long time to replace that.
 
Penquin said:
Lately I tend to stay as far away as possible from any social networking site. I think it's about 10 months since I last logged into my Facebook account. I sit in front of my work PC for 9 hours a day. If you want to communicate, send me an email. At night and weekends, call me on my cell.
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Email is far from dying out. In fact is should be evolving from mime base to xml in the near future to support even more functionality.
 
I would say email as we know it will die out and ideas like Orkut from google will take over .
IM, Social networking , Email . All with one username and password.

I personally dont log into gmail anymore but into Orkut and then navigate from there.
 
Email will never die. Its a LOT more popular than social networking sites. Most corporates block social networking sites anyway.
 
Penquin said:
Lately I tend to stay as far away as possible from any social networking site. I think it's about 10 months since I last logged into my Facebook account. I sit in front of my work PC for 9 hours a day. If you want to communicate, send me an email. At night and weekends, call me on my cell.
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Definitely! I prefer email to phone calls during office hours. Email is still the most efficient business tool. Over weekends one can go and scr3w around on social networking sites.
 
If you're twelve and say lol, rofl and lmao a lot, then perhaps yes, email is not for you. Otherwise I'm afraid to say that email is still with us for a long, long time. Wasn't email supposed to completely eliminate letters and lead to the paperless society? How'd that go?
 
Email, tweets, facebook updates, IM's, sms', PINs, etc are all funnelled to me through one device, my cellphone. As long as I have my blackberry to rule them all I'm not particularly bothered how the information gets to me.
 
i think the stats are pretty skewed demographically.
up until the age of 18, most people sit on mxit all day because they can't afford to sms.
then, they go to varsity and rich mommy and daddy get them a bb with bis & bb chat to save themselves the data costs.
or they use mommy and daddy's bb to chat to all their buddies because IM is something new apparently, and they still can't afford a computer or data costs.
only after that do people finally get into the working world, get a laptop/desktop of their own and start needing to communicate with messages that can earn them money.
look, it's a gross generalisation, but somebody i know just did some research and the trends to this effect were quite insteresting.
email is srzbznz.
 
rpm said:
Email is dying

Email is so ... last year. When it comes to my trusted network of contacts there are very often better ways to communicate with them.
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The author of this statement is also "so ... last year"! With the plethora of other communication tools, it is IMPOSSIBLE to send a variety of attachments, pictures (more than one), a mixture of media, etc. It's also easier for me to remember (memorise) an e-mail address. Sure, I like communicating, but to communicate with someone who does not have TWIT-ter, Fa[r]cebook, DIGG, LinkedIn, ... or any other account, an e-mail address is still the most appropriate.

E-mail is current, active, alive, dynamic, and will not "die out" as claimed. Therefore Email is NOT dying.
 
Insecticide said:
I would say email as we know it will die out and ideas like Orkut from google will take over .
IM, Social networking , Email . All with one username and password.

I personally dont log into gmail anymore but into Orkut and then navigate from there.
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orkut... you mean google's failed clone of fb?
are we talking about the same thing or do you mean google wave?
 
Email is certainly not dying. If anything it is taking off more than ever before. More and more of my friends are getting blackberry's and other smartphones (but mainly blackberrys). Not everybody has a blackberry, but most middle to high end phones support push email anyway - and email is far cheaper than smsing. The result being that many of my friends and I use email to communicate where many people will use SMS.

Email is not slow. In many cases, its going to be far faster than sending a message on Facebook. Why? Because alot more people are signed into their email (or have push email enabled or whatever) for most of the day than people who are on Facebook for most of the day. And delivery times aren't bad at all - and by delivery I mean from sending it to having the receiver know that there is a new one to be read. A friend and I actually timed an email today - on our phones. The email left my Sony Ericsson W890i, and 9 seconds later my friend's Blackberry Bold started vibrating. Quite honestly, a 9 second delay isn't worth worrying about. A few hours before the person checks his or her Facebook again? Thats a problem if the message is something like "I'm outside."

The person who wrote this article definitely should have done some research before writing such an article.
 
I don't know how to answer the poll.

For business, I use email 90% of the time. Instant messaging if I am busy troubleshooting and need error messages, which can be slow over email, or phoning the person.

For personal use, Instant messaging. Or phone the person. For me these two are interchangeable.
 
Wow... what an idiotic statement and article. Clearly a lot of research went into this, with all the Facebook and Twitter security/privacy issues that came about in the past few months.
 
Email is great for most situations. Twitter is mostly one-sided. Most IMs are way too intrusive to be used regularly, almost as much as a proper phone call, just not as costly.

I hardly ever use facebook to be honest. Good for organising events with friends, but limited to casual use, and I prefer to use email anyway.
 
Silly writer, probably a 16 year old brat :p

Email is a business tool, social networking is erm... just that, a SOCIAL tool.

I'd agree that companies are starting to utilize social networking sites, especially in human resources departments, but that's about where it ends.
 
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