Email on the way out?

[webmaster]

strange:

Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos and a former French finance minister, wants a "zero email" policy to be in place within as early as 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful. Instead he wants them to use an instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.


 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news...mails.html 
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[Corrine]

That makes about as much sense as Eric Lundquist's article,  Microsoft Office, Enjoy Your Retirement .
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[badboys]

I have been hearing "email is out" for the longest time but reality is that email will stick around for a long time as businesses use it for daily basis.

Now if Facebook targets businesses for internal communication, then that could be something

[cellophane]

Email is in for the long haul. It's truly a fantastic form of communication. Much more meaningful than social networks.

[darksurfer]

cellophane wrote:

Email is in for the long haul. It's truly a fantastic form of communication. Much more meaningful than social networks.

I agree. Email is not going the way of the dinosaur. But I do disagree that social media is not that meaningful.

Look at Linked In. They are strictly about business, employment and they don't show pictures of naked, drunken people that some future employer may be crawling for later when it's time to do background checks--if you know what I mean.

Even when you have social media like Twitter and Facebook. And even with Facebook, you still see people passing around and using their email addresses.
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[curious john]

darksurfer wrote:

But I do disagree that social media is not that meaningful.

I love email. I would have done well back in days when people wrote letters and sent them snail mail. Email gives that ability to take time to compose ones thoughts, plus near instant delivery. A letter, even an electronic one lets one keep an appropriate distance from others.

Phones and such instant communication invite too much familiarity and social media ups that phone familiarity ten fold. Yuck, I dont need to know all gruesome details of somebody's personal life. Let that persons family be the only ones to suffer that knowledge.

[goofygamer35]

what would replace e-mail... any suggestions?

[Dude111]

Probably private messaging on various sites like this