Box of Meat

Teens herald the death of email

Yet another article tracking the diversification of online messaging platforms yet describing it as the impending doom of email.

Personally, I think email became a victim of its own success and was used for lots of purposes that it didn’t really suit well.  And now that there are other platforms that suit those other purposes better, email is returning to the uses for which it is best suited.

Now if only we could get everyone to actually move to those other platforms instead of insisting that their ill-suited use of email is a valid edge case that we have to take into account whenever we introduce something new….