David Emery OnlineThe Decline and Fall of E-Mail
29 November 2010
I have in my computer every e-mail message I have sent or received since 1992. Minus the obvious spam, this database comes to about half a million messages from people as varied (or similar, if you think about it) as Larry Ellison and Larry Flynt. But lately my e-mail seems to be dying.
The latest in a long line of ‘email is dead’ articles; there’s some grain of truth to it – I certainly receive a tiny amount of personal emails these days, with Twitter, Facebook and SMS (in order of least personal to most personal) picking up the slack.
What these communication methods don’t account for though is work – I wouldn’t dream of using Facebook for work communications and I’m sure I’m not the only one (do you want to be friends with everyone you work with?). Email for work purposes seems pretty unchallenged to me.
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