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Shabbi LuthraHere is another article that is worth reading. The Wall Street Journal focused on the decrease use and importance of email as a communication tool - overshadowed by more collaborative and social media formats.
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Chasjo MitchPerhaps. But there's another way to think about all this. You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not. We get lured into wasting time, telling our bosses we are looking into something, instead of just doing it, for example. And we will no doubt waste time communicating stuff that isn't meaningful, maybe at the expe
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Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time.
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In August 2009, 276.9 million people used email across the U.S., several European countries, Australia and Brazil, according to Nielsen Co., up 21% from 229.2 million in August 2008. But the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 million people.
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Joyce LainEmail is being supplanted by other kinds of communications. Here's why—and what it means for the ways we communicate." /><meta name="subsection" content="Special" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
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Amped Status"Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine. We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun. Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don't need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public "status" on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time. "
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Barry SummersEmail is being supplanted by other kinds of communications. Here's why—and what it means for the ways we communicate." /><meta name="subsection" content="Special" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
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