Why Email No Longer Rules…

Really? Not so fast....literally. Like the space between musical notes I enjoy the space between the noise.

And besides, Twitter, like YouTube, has not figured out how to support itself yet, as in creating a business model that generates an income. So they may not last long.


“I'll stick with e-mail -- write when I want, as often (or not ) as I want, to whom I want privately. No interest in letting the world know that I overcooked the spaghetti."



Why Email No Longer Rules

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.

We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.

Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don't need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public "status" on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time....cont'd


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html

not a fan of twitter/facebook, etc.

Is it so egomaniacs can tell other egomaniacs what they're doing 24/7? Why does anyone really WANT to be that accessible? :shrug:

Whatever, it's just another nail in the coffin of person to person communication. Humans will forget how to talk to real people, face to face. They'll stand 5 feet apart and twitter each other instead of talking. :crazy:

All that changes does not necessarily progress.

When do people have time to focus on one person/one conversation. Where is depth? It seems to me that time would be consumed by getting meaningless updates from friends.

it is the best place to get the news. Last night, I just kept refreshing my Twitter page, and learned everything about the election.

As far as "tweeting", I am not that into it. It is more the "following" that I like.

I am not on Facebook.