[Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 19 July 2007 07:40
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Is email dead, too?
> 
> Andrew Boyd:
> 
> > I would say that the use of email is changing
> 
> Would it be fair to say that rather than the use of email 
> changing, available platforms for messaging is growing?
> 

"Sometimes I say I e-mailed you, but I mean I Myspace'd or Facebook'ed
you,"

30 years ago could have been:

"Sometimes I say I wrote to you, but I mean I faxed or teletyped you,"

A definite case of plus ca change.

Personally, I control my own namespace in the form of my own domain. I'm
unwilling to lock myself into somebody else's for messaging quite yet.

BTW did anyone say why they prefer to use MySpace (or other) for
messaging? Is spam the issue here or something? Why are they sacrificing
ubiquity?

Jonathan



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