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[jofish22]

It occurs to me that in the future, nobody will read all their email, let alone respond to it.

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[jennsteele.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that you say this. At the IM panel that I ran at the ILTA Conference, general consensus was that email is going to become pretty much useless.

And that it already is so for kids these days. It's all instant communication, most of which has presence technology somewhat built in.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

You know, I think that's a misleading factoid.

How many of a kid's communications require persistence? Almost none. It's all about figuring out what you're going to do after school today, which is the kind of interaction that is well-matched to IM.

Whereas an adult needs to communicate things like telling the boss what the status of the Birnbender project requests are, and that's something that needs to be referenceable and maybe even archivable, which is something that email is good for.

It's all about finding the right medium for the message.

And hey, aren't we all using blog comments for general long-distance social interaction right now much more than we do email or IMs? Right tool for the job...