Could Facebook and Twitter Replace e-mail?

[HiddenVenom]

Facebook and Twitter to replace e-mail?

Source: Social Times

   A lot of the online community has seen a paradigm shift in communication. You perhaps use facebook, bebo, twitter, or myspace to easily contact your friends and family. As technology has become cheaper and more available, we have seen trends such as the digitization of media, such as movies, and the replacement of letters by emails.

   Could this happen again? With webmail being used less and less between those close together (which is the main source of emails), and the rampancy of microblogging and social networking, email is set to be replaced.

   However, the main source for this change is the businesses that currently rely on email. the social times states:
   "Social networking will prove to be more effective than emails in real time communications, such as informing colleagues about status updates, or expertise localization within a business. This is an area which is already well covered by services like Twitter and Facebook."

   So what do you think? Will email be replaced? Or are twitter and facebook just not good enough?

[PspKicks316]

No one even uses email anymore.

[DarkShot]

Yeah, the only thing I use email for is MSN.

[PspKicks316]

I use it for paypal and online ordering but that's it.

[FreeK]

i use it for school, ordering, and emails from sites....but then again...thats all ive ever used it for.

[blackburn]

i dont think facebook or twitter will. But i know Google Wave will once it's released publically

[aquatsr]

No one even uses email anymore.

I do.

Everyone who uses Facebook must have an e-mail. I also don't like Google Wave (although it may just be because of a lack of active users). I think Twitter is dumb, it's not a form of communication that is formal enough for communicating between two people.

I believe e-mail will become better and better, maybe turning into something like Google Wave, where you can add interactivity into it, but I don't see it being replaced by something that exists currently.

[HiddenVenom]

I agree with you there, but I have to say that mist email accounts people use nowadays are web ones. Also, windows live, google and yahoo don't have you sign up to an email account, they simply give you one as part of their service, and that could soon change.

[PspKicks316]

...of course people use web emails. That's the ONLY KIND of email.

[HiddenVenom]

Well, I meant instead of your standard comes-with-ISP sort of thing. From the dial-up days.
Post Merge: February 21, 2010, 02:20:08 PMAn email account in which outlook etc never has to be used - eg, stored in a cloud database.

[PspKicks316]

Outlook is just a local form of viewing emails. No email needs Outlook.

[HiddenVenom]

Technicalities, you win. You know what I mean though.

[jacobia jacob]

i only use email for registering for sites and occasionally school, so from a social point of view i think it already has. In a business environment, I think it would be too distracting. Imagine if people in the office got hooked on farmville, it would spread like a plague and that would be a huge drop in productivity. If someone were to try it it would have to be very limited.