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July 16, 2006
The End of Email -- Not!
This Chicago Trib piece about the death of email actually makes the opposite point, that email isn't dead at all. Teens' root beef about email is that it isn't immediate, which is really them saying that most people they know don't have data service (i.e., push email) on their cellphones, so to reach them right away with a text message you have to do it via SMS.Fine. So, get 'em all push email -- via Blackberry or whatever -- and watch as they rethink the usefulness of email. I'm not saying that SMS itself is dead, just that people regularly rank the two mediums along a fast-changing and impermanent axis.
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Who cares about the time-wasting habits of zero-attention span teenagers with nothing better to do, other than Rupert Murdoch and the companies trying to sell them stuff?
I suppose next we'll be hearing about how intelligent conversation is dead, and the standard digital greeting for 21st century adults will be "WHAT R U DNG OMG IM SO BORED LOL"
"Teens' root beef"? Nice. I can't decide whether this is felicitous, or awful, or felicitously awful. In any case, I like it.
The question how immediate should e-mail actually be yet to be answered...