Email going the way of the dodo?

[W1nTry]

I read this article and couldn't help but think of the discussion with Laertes and crixx about how IT admins consider Facebook an annoyance (in most cases) and laertes was arguing it's importance. I am sure he'll like this article:

Email is dead
Long live social notworking
By Stewart Meagher
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 12:02

farcebook

A SURVEY HAS FOUND THAT time-wasting twaddle sites like Facebook and Myspace are now taking up more of our time than traditional email.

The Nielsen survey found that 67 per cent of people who spent time online were fannying about with social notworking and blogging sites and that one in every six minutes spent online was spent trying to pretend to have loads of friends.

A spokesurveyor said some stuff about "global online experience" and "member communities," but we were too busy dreaming up a new website called FaceBoot where you would make spiteful and outrageously libelous comments about all of the people you'd really like to kick in the teeth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7932515.stm

[TriniXaeno]

lol, facebook and social networking on the whole is a force to be reckoned with. It is as human as breathing.

I love email and while it remains paramount at the work place, my personal email has become second in importance to social networking sites. No doubt.

Should be an interesting pole.

Which do you check first when you log on to the net? Or rather in which order?

Facebook, Email, Msn Messenger, (add online site/tool/app here)

[Crixx_Creww]

well, that article probably wasnt written by an annoyed overworked admin who has to scream at users to stop using exchange as a mc filer and u know ACTUALLY USE THE MC FILER!!! ZOMG!!!


work email= God tier, cannot be over ridden by silly social networking and twiddling.

as for at home
gatt
msn
gizmodo,lifehacker
xkcd,icanhascheezeburger,icanhashotdog
onemanga
hotmail
facebook


then lions share streaming and gaming

[Saxito Pau]

GATT is about as close as i'll ever come to Facebook

I still log in to my hi5 account about once every 2 weeks for about 20 minutes

Anyhow, I'm banning facebook in the ENTIRE SCHOOL from next term. Frigging teachers and students alike like they have nothing better to do with their time.

[Crixx_Creww]

haha good job
why quite nex term doh?
ban dat ish all now

[Arcmanov]

LoLz @ 'trying to pretend to have loads of friends'

[EmpireKing]

I check my Email then MSN then Trinituner/GATT then Fassbook....As much as im addicted i get bored of it rather easily

[Saxito Pau]

haha good job
why quite nex term doh?
ban dat ish all now

In simple terms: office politics and bacchanal.

[Netizen1]

Good luck there Sax...

We tried that in my school, and the VP of Academic Affairs got involved... Freedom of Information slapped to IT face...

needless to say, we lost that battle. So fb for all

Next batte, stop all de mc streaming (and that is a bw waster!)

[Crixx_Creww]

nah man alyuh needed to slap that vp in dey face

fb traffic eating up bw for legitimate school use.

[Queso]

just do like us, forward any attempts to access fb and hi5 to your company website. Solves the problem and gives IT a few good laughs (people actually call and ask why the company site comes up)

[TriniXaeno]

lol, that's brilliant

[Cross]

just do like us, forward any attempts to access fb and hi5 to your company website. Solves the problem and gives IT a few good laughs (people actually call and ask why the company site comes up)

Wow.....

www.facebook.com...redirecting to......www.carigamers.com


And

LoLz @ 'trying to pretend to have loads of friends'

LOL AHAHAHA I spewed my drink when i saw this

[Queso]

wait......you SPEWED your drink??? I haven't been around in a while, but has the meaning of spew changed? (sorry mods, jus curious)