Jul 15
Jeremiah asks if facebook will replace your email. My quick answer is not really. It may replace email from your personal communication tools (already IM has replaced email in this category). We can’t expect facebook to replace your business email. Also facebook is a closed system. Only people who are members of facebook can befriend you and only those people in your friend’s list can send messages to you. Email is an open system where anyone can contact you if they know your email address (spammers, huh!!). If at all anything else is going to replace email, the new system should be an open system and also be platform independent. Facebook is not. I wouldn’t subscribe to the theory that facebook will soon replace email completely.
July 15th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
The important thing to realize is that it isn’t a question of whether Facebook messaging (or any other communication tool) does or does not replace email. Many things already have replaced email for certain people in specific situations. There are friends who I share links with using Facebook. Others, del.icio.us, Pownce, or just plain email. It depends on what network the person is in, the content of my message, and the easiest and most efficient means of communicating it.
July 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
The important thing to realize is that it isn’t a question of whether Facebook messaging (or any other communication tool) does or does not replace email. Many things already have replaced email for certain people in specific situations.
There are friends who I share links with using Facebook. Others, del.icio.us, Pownce, or just plain email. It depends on what network the person is in, the content of my message, and the easiest and most efficient means of communicating it.
July 15th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
True.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
True.