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The decline and fall of email

Trackback — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:43:04 PST

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The decline and fall of email

SierraNightTide — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:52:50 PST

It's actually a rather interesting argument. With mobile phones increasingly using advanced technology to access social networking sites what will email be used for? However, at the moment people can't send attachments through a social networking such as MySpace and there is always the worry of security. I believe email is used just as much today as it was when it first was widely accepted however I believe it's used differently.

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cv — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:48:58 PST

Basically it come down to this: old farts (age 30+) e-mail. Young folks (under 30) text. And texting in many other regions (Asia, Europe) is much higher than that of the U.S.

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Jordan Golson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:46:46 PST

Also, that chart is measuring webmail and thus doesn't include standard email.

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Jordan Golson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:45:56 PST

We don't want to hear about your "logic" and "reason!" That would take away from our histrionics!

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srutherford — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:43:16 PST

Yes, you're reading it wrong. The charts don't say email is 'dying' as a form of communication; network stats suggest it is increasing (even after filtering out the spam traffic). I would also look deeper into how Hitwise obtains it metrics. If it's anything like Alexa, I would flush their metrics down the toilet.

Another factor in decreasing email usage can be SMS texting, which here in Europe is an important form of communication. Europeans have long used it before it was even available in North America.

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jake — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:42:30 PST

And isn't it worth noting that the entire pie (the number of hours spent online, the number of users, etc) probably grew during this two year period? So email actually has more users than it has ever had before.

Regardless-- Nick's idea is ridiculous-- except for people like Scoble, who in their right mind would use Facebook for every day business communication?

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ThatKid — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:42 PST

You're reading it wrong. Email's stayed relatively constant even as social networking has become substantially ore popular. The only thing that graph demonstrates is that something recently happened to account for a 15% drop in email usage. Or at least to their metric of it.

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