Do you tend to use your email less than you did before?

Email will be history? - Will email follow suite with snail mail?
@ferdzNK (3211)
Philippines
July 27, 2008 9:11pm CST
Do you think email will follow suite with snail mail? I've read an article before that they are predicting it will do so. We now have texting, chat, IM and even twitters(I haven't even been to that one yet) which offer a more speedy and simpler way of communication. I recently switch to gmail for my notification so that I could receive them all and it did but lately due to numerous email I'm having a hard time managing them. I am now looking for a more effective one. Can you share your experience to this effect and would think email will be like snail mail someday. Thanks in advance.
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@adoremay (2065)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
Life always goes forward, technology keeps on growing and improving. people always find ways to make life more simpler and faster, i guess it will.
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
I agree with you Adoremay, this is inevitable but I guess the new ones are not as effective as yet. We will see. Thanks for your sharing your view.
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• United States
28 Jul 08
Yeah, I only use my email when I absolutely have to. Generally I just call the person, though.
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
You are the new generation guy that goes with instant messages. Thanks Steeltownfan
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@zweeb82 (5653)
• Malaysia
9 Aug 08
Hey bro, remember the Acer Aspire One I told you about? It manages up to 6 different mail accounts concurrently & the IMs 4 simultaneously, how about that? HahaHave been busy with those little UMPCs lately as many are very familiar with Windows but not Linux. I had to configure some stuff for some of my customers. So how's it going with you? Twitter - Heard of, never even bother to look into, hahaToo many of these kinda stuff already. In Facebook, they're now offering cash prize for people who're interested in making Facebook apps. Just saw that few days ago I think.
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@momalisa65 (1971)
• United States
28 Jul 08
I hope not. I don't like to text or IM. It takes me way too long to text on a phone. I can type fast on a keyboard. I just like to type my message and send it and go do something else.
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
Oh we will enjoy email for a long time that's for sure just like snail mail. It is just like a lot of new ones are popping up which are faster. Thanks for sharing Momalisa.
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@richiem (3644)
• Philippines
5 Aug 08
As a mode of communication between families and friends, I think email would be also obsolete as snail mail. I rarely use email for communication. I just use email for notifications from myLot and other sites. If other facilities can do that other than email, I think email would be history too. Have a nice day!
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
18 Aug 08
You are right there my friend, I use YM more than email for them. If myLot notification would use RSS feed I would hardly use email. Right now I have 340+ unread mails just from myLot. Email client developers should really rethink of ways to easily manage email or it will end up as snail mail did.
@jinxky (2248)
• Philippines
29 Jul 08
well yeah, i almost got 1700 unread emails on my inbox hahaha.. i have 3 emails, 1 is for office use, 1 is for mylot & 1 is for forwarded emails. i regularly use my email here in mylot coz when i opened my yahoo messenger, new messages will popped up. & im checking my emails thru my phone by using gprs connection. for me ym & texting are the reason why emails & snail mails become lesser or just being ignored nowadays hehehe..
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
8 Aug 08
Talking about snail mail! These are the signs mentioned, if web/client mail applications don't come up with management innovations, we would be using email less just like it predecessor.
@balasri (26537)
• India
1 Nov 08
In fact I am using emails more now.My favorite one is Gmail.
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
29 Jul 08
Heya, yeah I do actually but not about me using less of my email. On the contrary I use it now more than ever because of schoolwork. Most professors would just ask us to email them our homeworks. I have to say that its very convenient and buys me some time to make it more better. What I do agree on is that email would be the next snail mail. I think it just comes with progress. People are always looking for ways to make things easier and the good old days would slowly become obsolete. Yeah Gmail is good for getting lots of mails but like you said its managing them thats difficult. Honestly, I love to get mails but not in an overwhelming rate/amount(like myLot notifications plus others;especially if I wasnt able to check my mail in a day. Whew!) Uhm..what exactly is 'twitters'? Havent really heard of it. As for texting, chats, and IM's I feel that they're just good for small talks and greetings. Would be hard to make an in depth conversation with someone with just those kinds of mediums. But I have to say that our place is not the 'Texting Capital of the World for nothing'.LOL!
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@wannafly (60)
• China
10 Aug 08
gmail,yahoo,hotmail,163,sina,QQ…… it's quite a hard work to remember the passwords and the accuont names,but i am getting used to it. I once use thunderbird,it is very simple and easy to use,but now,i just use gmail as my main email address,just one reason,it's big~~~ as to numerous email ,i am receiving almost 20 emails everyday,the searchbox helps a lot.