> On Apr 30, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Email is still around, and is still used for business. But for most interpersonal communications, email has become the medium of last resort, after social media sites and SMS. And in addition to the other reasons that cause people to prefer other media, spam filters have made cross-domain email notoriously unreliable. Social media is more for updated info to everyone than messaging to individuals. They don’t support messages to a subset, except through SMS or their own variant. SMS, Facebook messages, Twitter DMs, and other messaging is considered immediate and intrusive, just shy of a phone call in terms of “pay attention now”. They’re also often more limited in terms of what can be sent (total length, attachment size, etc.), vs. email. If you want to send a message that isn’t urgent to a directed group of people, what can you use besides email? Joe — Dr. Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist www.strayalpha.com
