Why Email Still Rules
By Rich Menga on Oct 13, 2009 in Editorials, Featured | comments(6)
This is a response article to Jessica E. Vascellaro’s article, Why Email No Longer Rules.
For years I have been hearing over and over, "Email is dead." This is absolutely not true and probably never will be. The reason is because there has been absolutely nothing introduced to messaging which works better than email.
Jessica cites Twitter and Facebook several times. Both of these are cloud-based, and are therefore stupid because there is no way to save your messages locally and back them up. And when the cloud goes down, guess what? So does all your messaging. Nobody in their right mind would use Twitter, Facebook or any other cloud-base as their primary messaging system. Do so and you’d be a fool.
She did not mention anything about the cloud whatsoever (it’s mention nowhere in her article,) or how unbelievably dangerous it is to use. I think the debacle with T-Mobile Sidekick exemplifies in grand fashion why cloud-based messaging just plain sucks.
There is absolutely no way business can run without email. It is a messaging system that is proven to work. Twitter is plagued with outages. Facebook is plagued with social media "badness" in the form of phishing. Business has enough issues dealing with spam, and you want to tack on cloud outages and phishing on top of that?
I can say with utmost certainty that social media style messaging absolutely will not replace email, nor "dethrone" it, as it were.
Something eventually will replace email, but it certainly won’t be Facebook or Twitter. Not by a long shot. Email is still king of the mountain.


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