[FoRK] The death of email?

[Lucas Gonze]

What's profound about the rejection of email and embrace of messaging
within closed communities is that it is a rejection of
interoperability.  The goals and strategies of the founding generation
of internet creators are not meeting the needs of these users.

It's not spam that they object to -- myspace is crawling with it.
It's open access.  These users are seeking to be in sealed
environments.  The Compuserve model is undead.

On Jan 21, 2008 1:44 PM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:
> Young people seem to universally avoid email.  Probably because of spam.
> I suppose their "shout outs" on MySpace et al are email in a different
> form, but it is a shallow step backward.
>
> Communication in general needs to be cleaned up and organized much
> better.  My ideas are still only half-baked on the subject, but I feel a
> solution.
>
> Anti-spam needs more attention, that's for sure.  Perhaps, at the same
> time and with similar mechanisms, semi-automated sorting, tracking,
> queuing, categorizing, etc. can be done.
>
> Somehow, I'm not convince that the keyword / search pattern dynamic
> categories are the best way.
>
> sdw
>
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