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What Is The Future Of Email?

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"What is the future of email? Will it continue as a ubiquitous form of communication, or will it fade away in favor of Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other newer communication platforms? 

We decided to get away from the rhetoric around email marketing and social media and ask the next generation what they think. 

167 students wrote essays on the topic and sent them to us. After reading and analyzing the essays, here's what we found they think about email and social media."

 Data and infographic by AWeber

3 Comments

Feb 28, 2012
Ryan said...
I think email will live on, at least for another 5-10 years.
Mar 24, 2012
Nick said...
Email is a federated, decentralised, universal communication system. Now that the spam problem is solved I really don't think you'll ever do away with email. Sure things like facebook may take a lot of the traffic, but even facebook now allows members to use the email protocol. Otherwise how else would you talk outside of your small gated community?

The syntax is intuitive even today, username @ (at) domain. nick@facebook, someone@gatedcommunity.com. It's the perfect way for these separate communities that are forming to talk between each other, and it's free.

Email may move out of the spotlight, the format may change slightly but supplementing it with 'chat' systems and add-on protocols, but as the base level communication mechanism it's not going anywhere.

Apr 12, 2012
Lewis LaLanne said...
I believe as long as people cherish one on one private conversations, there will always be a place for email.

I don't know if it's the same for you guys but hardly anyone comments on our blog but a shit-ton of people email us questions and feedback - all unsolicited.

It seems to me that more scared someone is of what the "public" thinks of them, the more in favor they'll be in of a channel like email that lets them be heard but not put on blast like with Facebook or Twitter. Even though both of those sites allow private messaging, this isn't the prime focus of those sites which I think caters to people who want to be heard by an audience of more than one.

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