social media hasn’t killed email, but spam may kill social media
ShareThis reports that even though they allow people to share content via a number of methods, email is still king. Ignoring social media, Jill Kurtz suggests that perhaps it’s because telephones have become increasingly inconvenient.
Over at LifeHack, Dustin Wax describes how to spam with examples from twitter and email (tongue-in-cheek, of course.) He offers an intriguing definition which I don’t think I’ve seen before: “Spam is any communication that purports to offer a benefit but is unwanted.” It fits well with one of his conclusions, that “[t]he number of ways we can communicate, and the reach of those communications, has vastly outstripped the social norms we have to regulate our interactions.”
Definitions aside, one of the biggest questions that has always plagued the fight against spam — no matter what the medium — is whether lawsuits like those from MySpace and Facebook will have any real effect, as Zusha Elinson discusses on law.com.
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