Have you noticed how nobody really writes emails anymore?
Before the age of twitter, facebook, blogs, wikis and other social networking type thingies we had email. Oh, I know you still use it for work and stuff, but I can remember a time when it was the prime means of communication amongst people you actually liked. Now it's probably facebook, and you know what? It just isn't the same.

When I started out in the world of work, I did a number of soul destroying office jobs, but one of the small compensations of this brave new world, was a desk, with a PC, and and email account. Most of my mates were in similar dead end jobs and were looking for anyway to break the tedium. Thanks to email, we had the perfect means of communication whilst pretending to look busy. Entire afternoons would disappear as we set about merrily extracting the piss out of each other. Waiting for the next caustic email to ping into your inbox and thinking of a suitably bilious and well-crafted reply were the highlights of the day.

Perhaps it's because I now have a proper job and less time on my hands, (as do most of my mates), but I still think email has a certain charm that is lacking from sterile corporate world that is facebook.

Whilst we're on the subject, what the fuck happened to Instant Messenger? I know it still exists, but does anyone actually use it?
(Nitrous Nitrous, Sat 24 Mar 2012, 23:43, 7 replies)

Thats more than 160char so I didnt read it
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 25 Mar 2012, 0:32, closed)

I use it
But mostly for work. I work from home for someone in a different state so it's a cheap and trackable way to talk shop...
(pizzaforcat ate some cement and HARDENED the FUCK UP on, Sun 25 Mar 2012, 6:57, closed)

Same Here

( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 25 Mar 2012, 9:25, closed)

You're right
I saw the results of a survey done for a couple of years ago, as part of which they asked people about ways they might contact a friend.

Among 16 - 24 year olds the least popular medium was a posted letter. The second least popular was email. Number one was text message, number two was IM - and you're right, IM seems to have died even more rapidly than email.
(ubergeekian, Sun 25 Mar 2012, 11:40, closed)

I think IM has been replaced with Skype and/or Facebook chat.
My IM has 1 person on it at the moment.
My Skype has 15.
(Dante licked your nipple on, Sun 25 Mar 2012, 15:04, closed)

I'm slightly worried
that it might be an age thing, but I still use more email than anything else.

I'm not a luddite by any means, I completely understand how facebook works, but I don't find it particularly gripping. If I want to know my sister-in-laws cat shit behind her sofa, I'll wait till next time I see her. If she forgets to mention it, well, you know - I'll survive.

As someone else mentioned, Skype seems much more popular as a messenger. I use mine all the time, both for biz and friends. My wife has family aborad, I can't begin to imagine how much money Skype has saved us, she spends hours yapping with her sisters on it.
(username failed moderation, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 8:28, closed)

Yeah, I guess it's not the sort of thing your sister-in-law would write a dedicated email for ...

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 13:49, closed)