I have been reading John C. Dvorak for years. He has always had very insightful and forward thinking (if extremely opinionated) views on the tech world around us, and for the most part, I agree with him. His latest article about “9 Reasons E-Mail Is Dead” is yet another fine read.
It reminds me of how friends would rather “Facebook” me or message me on MSN than send me an email. Even though I have push email on my phone, I seemed to always miss communications from friends due to them using channels other than the traditional email. Now, though, my Facebook messages are forwarded to my email, so it’s not so bad. Though, I still refuse to check those Twitter feeds just to know what my friends are doing every 2 seconds.
Anyhow, I think John might be right, as I always have the nagging thought in the back of my head whenever I send any email, especially important ones. Will it get flagged by spam filters? Will the servers function properly and get the message through? Will it get buried under hundreds of other mails in the recipients mailbox?
In a sense I feel that the evolution of email has moved backwards. I had none of these issues even 10 years ago when I first started using my email regularly. You just hit “send” and boom, cleanly and efficiently delivered to sender. Why can’t we re-simplify email back to those days?
Anyhow, see you on the Face-twit-space.
That, and that people are sending huge attachments for no reason. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should!