The death of email is, as usual, overstated

Yet Another Article here on the Death of Email*.

Logic of argument - kids don't use email a lot, therefore it is dead:

Fallacies in argument:

- Kids don't use email - I have kids, thats pure rot - they do, just they use other stuff too.
- Because kids don't use email it is therefore dead - but we know that people use different comms media for different purposes, and kids are in a different lifestage to the rest of the generations and don't use it as much

As always, Facebook et al are held as the way forward - but thats for now because its cool, but they are woefully inefficient as comms tools - look at the number of transactions you need to read a Facebook message.

Wait till the little bleeders are more time constrained

The trick is probably to make all the various comms methods more integrated (surely not the rise again, phoenix like, of Unified Messaging) so that you can send a message from a variety of sources and receive them in a variety of ways. One of the reasons Twitter has taken off I suspect (looking at the way its used) is it is really a low bandwidth UM service.

* To be fair, the article is more balanced but since when has that spoiled a good fisk