dailymail.co.uk— Mark Zuckerberg declared the death of email last month, now new figures reveal the Facebook founder was right. Young users are abandoning the service of the 1990s.
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seriously... good luck getting a job through facebook mail. Not to say its not possible, just not how things are going to be done for the majority.
I can email anyone from my account, with facebook your stuck inside. All they can do is use a facebook domain to actually send emails... in which case facebook is just another email. so shut up about email being dead please
No western company with more then a few employees can function without email. It is the lifeblood of the economy, having displaced most inter-office mail and memos.
It will not die. It may change, the protocols may become more or less verified or secured, but it will not die.
Sure, it is amazing that Mark would claim the death of email. Has anyone noticed recently that he doesn't display HIS email on his public Facebook page?
As with the outage of Twitter and the more recent outage of Skype, email is the fallback option and I don't see it dying, ever. I just find it overall more flexible for my needs
Yeah, but Mark Zuckerberg is a douche who stole Facebook from someone else and is turning it into the Borg. Of course he wants you to believe Facebook is the only game in town (and that he personally is a rock star).
If people don't use alternatives, soon there won't be any alternatives.
I do think it's generational. My kids rarely email anymore, same with my younger nephews and nieces, preferring texting. But not Twitter. I know very few young people who use it. Anybody remember fax machines? They were whirring in the 90s, and now I use mine maybe once a week.
I'm sorry but I can't monitor my facebook and twitter feeds all the time, if something important comes across that I need to see I want it available to me if I'm away from my computer for a few hours. Email is perfect for this. The other 2 are not.
If you're working, there should be Wi-Fi. If you actually work somewhere where there's no Wi-Fi, I guess you don't really need to worry about all this technology stuff in the first place.
Sure, Mark... *yawn*
Email is a shared communication medium. If it's old or outdated that owes more to the fact that the email clients and webmail hasn't evolved much.
A major problem with everyone communicating with facebook is that it's all owned by facebook. Further, while there are serious ethics and privacy rules regarding email no such rules exist for facebook.
I can't help but think the people that rely on facebook for their day to day communication are credulous fools.
If I want, I can get my own hosted mail or even host it myself. I can't do the same thing with facebook so there's no comparison for security.
Further, email is so standardized that there is a lot of sottware for controlling it. Facebook has nowhere near the level of spam filtering, redirection control, or other nifty features that you'll find in a program like outlook or even thunderbird.
if you break up the databases then people might get compromised all the time but the totality are never compromised.... and a great many databases will simply escape notice.
I prefer email because it allows me the chance to think about what I want to say before I say it. Twitter, texting, Facebook and all that certainly have their uses but 90% of it seems like near-mindless trivia instead of actual communications.
The hilarity of this thread is that if Google had made this declaration, all the comments would be agreeing saying "I rarely use e-mail anymore! Google is AWESOME! Innovative again!"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Sorry but he's wrong. Email is the one thing almost everyone on the net has. Not everyone has Facebook, Twitter, or even the same chat protocol. Not by a long shot.
Eventually email will be replaced by something but it most likely will not be a Facebook or Twitter. At least not one that looks anything close to what it does now.
The "email is dead" is such a load of s**t. Are you telling me that you are going to text or IM a client every time you want to talk to them? You'd drive them f**king nuts.
Let's clarify: when you want to get in touch with someone you know well, email is dead. For all other purposes, email is the still the goto way to communicate.
That's using email. so it's not dead. I have a hunch once you get a real job you will NOT be using Facebook or Twitter for communications. Facebook and Twitter are for casual BSing.
Thats all I use the internet for to begin with is 'casual BSing' Anything official still goes through Snail mail for me. I've never really considered email to be official enough to use for business practices.
For anyone that needs to track what they're written and received, who needs to compose a complete thought longer than one paragraph, who needs to attach documents and images, email's the thing. Of course kids don't use email, they don't think past the next 30 seconds. That's why the Failbook site has so much good stuff, stupid people who don't know how to post privately to another user. They put everything on each others' walls and then act surprised that parents, teachers, or boy/girlfriends have seen what they've written to someone else. Facebook and Twitter have their places, but email still rules for anyone that needs to do work.
When I was in high school 10 years ago, everyone used AIM and MSN Messenger for day-to-day communication. You might send an e-mail if you had something long and important to say, but what teenager has ever used it as their main way of getting in touch with friends?
I give this article thumbs down. Perhaps email will slow down but it won't die anytime soon. Too many professionals communicate this way. Our SmartPhones help us get emails right away so we can respond in an efficient and professional manner. I would never send out a resume via facebook, could you imagine what they would think after seeing pics of me drunk!! haha!! I would look very irresponsible.
great - now the younger generation has another excuse NOT to write and instead use text lingo for communicating....more duming down of America and society as a whole. Thank God for Facebook. How did we live without it?
great - now the younger generation has another excuse NOT to write and instead use text lingo for communicating....more duming down of America and society as a whole. Thank God for Facebook. How did we live without it?
If email is dead then why do I have to create an account on Facebook with email? Why does it have email notifications? Why does email seem to the be central focus of everything online that I do? Social networks, and twitters, and gaming communities all come and go. People are on some but not on others, etc. But I know me and friends all have email. The same email always for years. That I can count on for communication in the end.
justatoolDec 24, 2010
There will never be "The death of email" I think email will always have a usage for work matters. For personal stuff we have lots of other options.
rufiohoDec 24, 2010
agreed times 10. People still use snail mail for heaven's sake.
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Not very many use it for sending letters. It's mainly used now for sending packages.
DaquineDec 25, 2010
I agree.
Closed AccountDec 25, 2010
It is called exaggeration! No one is really expecting e-mail usage to die completely, as in drop to zero.
giyadDec 25, 2010
seriously... good luck getting a job through facebook mail. Not to say its not possible, just not how things are going to be done for the majority.
I can email anyone from my account, with facebook your stuck inside. All they can do is use a facebook domain to actually send emails... in which case facebook is just another email. so shut up about email being dead please
ConservativeViewpointDec 25, 2010
That is exactly what they said about snail-mail.
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Snail mail is pretty much dead. The USPS is mainly used not to deliver packages not letters.
bcm79Dec 25, 2010
No western company with more then a few employees can function without email. It is the lifeblood of the economy, having displaced most inter-office mail and memos.
It will not die. It may change, the protocols may become more or less verified or secured, but it will not die.
steveshashaDec 25, 2010
Yes. More than 90% Internet users have email. About 25% Internet's users have social networking account.
Closed AccountDec 25, 2010
Sure, it is amazing that Mark would claim the death of email. Has anyone noticed recently that he doesn't display HIS email on his public Facebook page?
wjappeDec 24, 2010
As with the outage of Twitter and the more recent outage of Skype, email is the fallback option and I don't see it dying, ever. I just find it overall more flexible for my needs
revsharptonDec 24, 2010
Yeah, but Mark Zuckerberg is a douche who stole Facebook from someone else and is turning it into the Borg. Of course he wants you to believe Facebook is the only game in town (and that he personally is a rock star).
If people don't use alternatives, soon there won't be any alternatives.
timedrDec 27, 2010
Yesssssssss..I agreeeee...
xplore4lifeDec 24, 2010
Merry Chirstmas...
blinker1315Dec 24, 2010
I do think it's generational. My kids rarely email anymore, same with my younger nephews and nieces, preferring texting. But not Twitter. I know very few young people who use it. Anybody remember fax machines? They were whirring in the 90s, and now I use mine maybe once a week.
analogassassinDec 24, 2010
Wow. Even a once-a-week fax is a LOT. Does anyone remember getting inappropriate jokes in the office via fax?
wpyhDec 25, 2010
Where I live, the main business communication (for formal documents) is by fax :p
bobmcbobDec 25, 2010
Korea?
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Fax is still in heavy use in the business world.
adml_shakeDec 24, 2010
I'm sorry but I can't monitor my facebook and twitter feeds all the time, if something important comes across that I need to see I want it available to me if I'm away from my computer for a few hours. Email is perfect for this. The other 2 are not.
joshzamDec 25, 2010
That's what push notifications on smartphones are for. Welcome to 2008.
adml_shakeDec 25, 2010
And if I'm in an area that that doesn't have a good signal? Like most of the buildings I work in?
joshzamDec 27, 2010
If you're working, there should be Wi-Fi. If you actually work somewhere where there's no Wi-Fi, I guess you don't really need to worry about all this technology stuff in the first place.
karmashockDec 24, 2010
Sure, Mark... *yawn*
Email is a shared communication medium. If it's old or outdated that owes more to the fact that the email clients and webmail hasn't evolved much.
A major problem with everyone communicating with facebook is that it's all owned by facebook. Further, while there are serious ethics and privacy rules regarding email no such rules exist for facebook.
I can't help but think the people that rely on facebook for their day to day communication are credulous fools.
If I want, I can get my own hosted mail or even host it myself. I can't do the same thing with facebook so there's no comparison for security.
Further, email is so standardized that there is a lot of sottware for controlling it. Facebook has nowhere near the level of spam filtering, redirection control, or other nifty features that you'll find in a program like outlook or even thunderbird.
cnldeltaDec 25, 2010
Bleh @ Fb for secure communication. I know I got hacks/spies in there reading my messages and IMs.
Click one insecure link and an entire network of hackers have access to every message and IM in there. I f*ck around with them and send false info.
karmashockDec 25, 2010
if you break up the databases then people might get compromised all the time but the totality are never compromised.... and a great many databases will simply escape notice.
nekikoDec 25, 2010
I don't like friending family on facebook so I still use it :P
norman619Dec 25, 2010
How f**ked up is your family?
nekikoDec 25, 2010
Their not f**ked up, I just like using email cause I can sound like the perfect kid on them :)
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Ah so you're the f**ked up one. Understood.
thejokkerDec 25, 2010
yeah Zuckerberg declared the death of an open medium (email) and a new era where his communication tool (facebook) is the most important.
jpoczatekDec 25, 2010
Maybe I should just poke my professors when I have an urgent question.
brucealmightyDec 25, 2010
I prefer email because it allows me the chance to think about what I want to say before I say it. Twitter, texting, Facebook and all that certainly have their uses but 90% of it seems like near-mindless trivia instead of actual communications.
Closed AccountDec 25, 2010
Bingo. I agree.
wpyhDec 25, 2010
"When I was your age, email was the future."
dollar0dot02Dec 25, 2010
In South Korea only old people use Twitter and Facebook.
Closed AccountDec 25, 2010
The hilarity of this thread is that if Google had made this declaration, all the comments would be agreeing saying "I rarely use e-mail anymore! Google is AWESOME! Innovative again!"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
diggsmckenzieDec 25, 2010
No, I would call Google out on making such a stupid statement.
Nice anti-Google trolling though. 3/10
spider_manDec 25, 2010
Sorry but he's wrong. Email is the one thing almost everyone on the net has. Not everyone has Facebook, Twitter, or even the same chat protocol. Not by a long shot.
Eventually email will be replaced by something but it most likely will not be a Facebook or Twitter. At least not one that looks anything close to what it does now.
nysusDec 25, 2010
The "email is dead" is such a load of s**t. Are you telling me that you are going to text or IM a client every time you want to talk to them? You'd drive them f**king nuts.
Let's clarify: when you want to get in touch with someone you know well, email is dead. For all other purposes, email is the still the goto way to communicate.
brandonakellyDec 25, 2010
I really cant say that I USE email, I just use it to get news or information from tools I have.. thats about it
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Then you USE email. Man someone really needs to fix the education system in this country.
kinserDec 25, 2010
I pretty much only use email to sign up for things anymore.
norman619Dec 25, 2010
That's using email. so it's not dead. I have a hunch once you get a real job you will NOT be using Facebook or Twitter for communications. Facebook and Twitter are for casual BSing.
kinserDec 25, 2010
Thats all I use the internet for to begin with is 'casual BSing' Anything official still goes through Snail mail for me. I've never really considered email to be official enough to use for business practices.
zipzagDec 25, 2010
Viva La Email!
evildadDec 25, 2010
For anyone that needs to track what they're written and received, who needs to compose a complete thought longer than one paragraph, who needs to attach documents and images, email's the thing. Of course kids don't use email, they don't think past the next 30 seconds. That's why the Failbook site has so much good stuff, stupid people who don't know how to post privately to another user. They put everything on each others' walls and then act surprised that parents, teachers, or boy/girlfriends have seen what they've written to someone else. Facebook and Twitter have their places, but email still rules for anyone that needs to do work.
bobmcbobDec 25, 2010
When I was in high school 10 years ago, everyone used AIM and MSN Messenger for day-to-day communication. You might send an e-mail if you had something long and important to say, but what teenager has ever used it as their main way of getting in touch with friends?
rustycawleyDec 25, 2010
I can live without email.
smokezzDec 25, 2010
If you trust Facebook for communication, you deserve what you get when you find your communication isn't private at all ... f**k Facebook.
akairennDec 25, 2010
And e-mail is private? Only if you use PGP or one of the alternatives.
smokezzDec 25, 2010
It's more private than all of Facebooks app and advertisers "accidentally" getting access to all of it.
exploit67Dec 25, 2010
Still sending snail mail? Yup.
norman619Dec 25, 2010
What are you sending?
norman619Dec 25, 2010
Last I checked Gmail is in heavy use.
zkatkinDec 25, 2010
F!@##!
I'm in my mid-20's own a technology company and have to battle "older" people who don't use email. Now what am I to do that email is "dead."
Honestly I think it's the best form of business communication, agree with justatool, email will never die.
silverkaatDec 25, 2010
I give this article thumbs down. Perhaps email will slow down but it won't die anytime soon. Too many professionals communicate this way. Our SmartPhones help us get emails right away so we can respond in an efficient and professional manner. I would never send out a resume via facebook, could you imagine what they would think after seeing pics of me drunk!! haha!! I would look very irresponsible.
o76923Dec 25, 2010
Yeah, I remember last time email died because google wave killed it.
/s
buttleDec 25, 2010
Death of email means it won't be what it use to be. Just like the death of myspace which is still going.
But I really like email, and it frustrates me when my younger friends don't use it.
lostinseganetDec 25, 2010
Hey email is still coo yo ya digg?
NikkiJayneGuestDec 25, 2010
As a 23 year old, I only use email for university and companies. I'd never email my friends as I doubt they'd read it!
marymichaelsDec 26, 2010
online accounts are more permanent and up to date..people like mobility as well.
mark6569Dec 26, 2010
great - now the younger generation has another excuse NOT to write and instead use text lingo for communicating....more duming down of America and society as a whole. Thank God for Facebook. How did we live without it?
mark6569Dec 26, 2010
great - now the younger generation has another excuse NOT to write and instead use text lingo for communicating....more duming down of America and society as a whole. Thank God for Facebook. How did we live without it?
dralezeroDec 26, 2010
If email is dead then why do I have to create an account on Facebook with email? Why does it have email notifications? Why does email seem to the be central focus of everything online that I do? Social networks, and twitters, and gaming communities all come and go. People are on some but not on others, etc. But I know me and friends all have email. The same email always for years. That I can count on for communication in the end.
webchingDec 26, 2010
I look at my email and use it everyday. There is no way I'm going to stop using my email anytime soon.
timedrDec 27, 2010
Mmmm..I still see a long life to the email...I suppose that it is easy to see the death of Facebook...in the next years. Let´s see...
genemundtDec 30, 2010
Obviously interesting and important news for anybody in business above a certain age.
genemundtDec 30, 2010
Obviously interesting and important news for anybody in business above a certain age.