Comments on: I Love Email

By: frankahilario

frankahilario — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:04:39 +0000

Long live email! In fact, I just started a blog dedicated to teaching people how to love email: http://love2email.blogspot.com/

By: fred_wilson917

fred_wilson917 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

brad,
i left this comment on seth levine's blog this morning
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to each his/her own these days. my kids use facebook and text messaging for the most part but now that they have email on their phones (bberry and iphone) they use that as well, but it's not their primary messaging system.

i still use email as my primary method, but as someone else said, it's the new snail mail. i hate doing it and its a chore. i called it "homework" on twitter today. that's how i feel about it.

i find text messaging and twitter are best for me, but they will only be better for a while. they will get more noisy and i'll have to move to something else.

i don't use facebook messaging at all. when people send me facebook messages, they are talking to a black hole

By: deva_hazari2084

deva_hazari2084 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

i might have a thought or two on this.... http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/04/three-next-...

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

You just described the opportunity nicely!

By: deva_hazari2084

deva_hazari2084 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

fred, i think the real solutions here are totally independent of communications medium. facebook/twitter/texting/email – it's all messaging and is all going to be subject to similar sets of problems. the right solutions around managing those channels and the data that passes across them won't care about the distinctions between them. as a side note, i really do think a lot of things pointed to as generational differences are often largely due to the difference of having a job or not. socially, there's tons of synchronous communication where the data is very transitory in nature. in a work setting, those discussions are far more often asynchronous in nature, and it's often important to have future access to that information as well as the context of discussions, not to mention audit trails and compliance/policy issues. i don't see email being supplanted for all of that type of communication anytime soon.

By: jay_parkhil2393

jay_parkhil2393 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

Boy did I love that movie! (God knows why) Thanks for posting the short trip down memory lane.

Oh, and good point too. Email is very useful/valuable/powerful, all of which qualities are perfectly balanced by its problems and limitations.

By: Jeff Barson, Evangel

Jeff Barson, Evangel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

Ok, I'll have to weigh in on this too. Anonymous systems are, and always will be, rife with noise, spam, and scams. Time for something that's security and identity based…
(Insert shameless plug for Sendside here.)

By: Jeff Barson, Evangel

Jeff Barson, Evangel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:10:13 +0000

By: Deva Hazarika

Deva Hazarika — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:21:05 +0000

By: Deva Hazarika

Deva Hazarika — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:01 +0000

i might have a thought or two on this.... http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/04/three-next-...