E-MAILS? MORE PEOPLE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM E-MAIL AND USING OTHER MESSENGERS

CONLIN (2005) BUSINESS WEEK/ 11/28/ 111-112

Despite numerous filters, if you work at home or business, e-mails arrive that are spam, porn, or other uninvited material.

Many are now moving to telephone, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs. E-mail may take too long and is too much trouble.

If you want to avoid porn, good luck. As an example, an e-mail may say SPECIAL MESSAGE. You open it and there is porn. No, you don’t get a warning, you get porn.

So, there are other opportunities. About 90% of communications are e-mail, but you can now a trend away from e-mail. Already 10% use some other communication and it is increasing.

By the way, if you stay off the majors and stay with a small e-mail service, your problem is reduced, but not completely annihilated. It never completely goes away.