{"id":1048,"date":"2010-07-04T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2010-07-04T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T11:37:09","slug":"is-facebook-trying-to-replace-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/is-facebook-trying-to-replace-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook Trying to Replace E-mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst I was out and about today I got thinking about how deep Facebook has its hooks in the online social interactions between many people around the world. It didn’t seem too long ago that we were quite happy with online forums, e-mail and SMS before Facebook and Twitter showed up.<\/p>\n

Outside of work, I don’t write too many e-mails at all. Over the last week, I have received 168 e-mails and have sent a total of five (of which one was a reply to an e-mail received and another was forwarded). on the other hand, I have made just under fifty updates on Facebook and ten updates on Twitter. I couldn’t count how many tweets the people I follow have generated over the last week but it would be stacks.<\/p>\n

Once you stand back and look at those numbers it can certainly put things in perspective.<\/p>\n

So, is Facebook trying to replace e-mail?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if it is their strategy but obviously our personal information is for their commercial gain. E-mail is almost a private back-channel in the eyes of the social media sites. \u00a0Facebook’s popularity is at a point where most of your friends may already be on there and if you want to interact with them you need to sign up. The lack of real alternative makes it hard for people to break free, especially since Facebook doesn’t make it easy to “port out” or share all of your information with other sites.<\/p>\n

One way or another, you might want to look at your use of social communications and how the ratios stack up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst I was out and about today I got thinking about how deep Facebook has its hooks in the online social interactions between many people around the world. It didn’t seem too long ago that we were quite happy with online forums, e-mail and SMS before Facebook and Twitter showed up. Outside of work, I … <\/p>\n

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