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Sure, the likes of Facebook and Twitter are impacting on some of the social messaging that might once have taken place by email, but that doesn't mean email's going to go anywhere. Email still has a unique place in most people's internet experience - it's the unique identifier that you use to sign up and get notifications from most of these services for example. It's also a generic technology - unlike social networks, nobody's going to pull the plug on email if the numbers are down, because nobody can - email doesn't have shareholders, and there's no Zuckerberg figure trying to make money out of it.

More than all that, business needs email, and no business is going to trust that traffic to a social network. Facebook can't kill email any more than the phone killed the post, or indeed email killed the post or the phone for that matter - there's a place for all these things. Just try sending a package by Twitter.]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:26AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/
Email is an absolute necessity these days: postage/payment confirmations, website sign-up details, banking, CV requests. I'd rather keep things private than posted to my now long-deactivated Facebook profile. ]]>Oct 14th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/Oct 16th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/]]>Oct 16th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/social-networking-on-the-rise-as-bell-tolls-for-e-mail/
Also, the stats for email users worldwide is completely off. "More people overall (301.5 million) now actively use sites like Facebook and Twitter than do e-mail services (276.9 million)"

In 2007, there were over 727 million business email users alone worldwide, and Ferris Research predicts that the number will grow to just under one billion by 2010.

See my post below

Generation Y Email?
http://www.messagingtimes.com/2007/07/27/generation-y-email/

Social networking and MMS communication are definitely the go-to apps for many in social circles. But for business and private communication, email is still 'the killer app'.

But sure, email has been pronounced 'dead' many times. Not too long ago, when RSS was touted as it's replacement. Email is dead. Long live email.
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