The death of Email

[andrewducker]

There's something about e-mail that demands a reply, demands a response. But when you’re getting thousands of these things, it becomes an impossibility to respond to everything. So we’ve got to shift the etiquette, and maybe make e-mail more like publishing: that is, you send something out and you might get one percent response. I think that the paradigm of e-mail as letters, as objects, is inappropriate. I'm waiting for a shift to the timeline, rather than the object, as the organizing principle. If you think about a blog for instance, that’s a timeline. And it’s a really good way of organizing huge amounts of information, because we’re quite good at sequencing.

From here.

[Poll #149870]

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

You forgot "IRC".

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Really depends on the friend and their primary mode of communication and the context of the communication in question.

I'd say all of them to some degree.

Probably Email most of all, but maybe messenger, depending. Dammit, it's too vague

[gwenix.livejournal.com]

Can't answer this question, it depends on the friend.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

I do find the absence of telephony unusual. Does nobody use 'phones for anything?