Fwd: Email is not dead!
Over the last few years people have been claiming email is dead. I couldn’t disagree more. Conversations we have on Twitter, Facebook, YC HN etc.. happen there but what happens when you really want to communicate with one individual. You don’t use direct/private messages; you exchange email addresses. As long as this occurs email is still the central hub of my communication efforts. Anything worth saying to someone in more then two lines I email and I know you do too.
Yes, receiving hundreds of messages each day makes it difficult to respond to everyone. However that problem isn’t solved when you start dispersing your communication activities across five other networks. I am a big fan of Twitter because it has allowed me to build valuable relationships with several individuals. We update each other through Twitter but we talk in more then a 140 characters over email. There are many complaints that with the hundreds of emails coming in each day, how could you possibly answer each one of them. The solution is definitely not switching to Twitter/Friendfeed and spending half your day through an even larger stream of messages. If you make it your discipline to answer each email you receive, you’ll gain more value out of those conversations than anywhere else online. These are people that take the time to contact you and have filtered you as more valuable then the other 500 friends they have on a micro blogging service.
What about pitches? If you are one of the few who gets bothered with dozens of pitches each day, emails with ulterior motives, then kindly respond to them in a 140 characters “Thank you for emailing me but I am currently not interested… Best regards …”
Using the Gmail (Google Apps) interface has allowed me to respond to most emails within a matter of 24 hours, often if I am behind my laptop within 15 minutes. By the way, the reason I wrote this post is because I’ve set up my blog to now let me email-in my blog posts. I needed to write a post to test this out, I think this topic was applicable.
If you disagree with my post please voice it in the comments also I would love to hear your uses for email.
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