Here are your results to the question, "When will email become obsolete?":
12% 2013
23% 2015 or later
0% next year
64% never
Never? 64% responded never? Really?
There's a reason that the name "Henry Ford" has such high name recognition today, and hardly anyone can name the top horse carriage and buggy manufacturer from a century ago. Somehow, things change - - whether we want them to change or anticipate the change. You remember having to stand by a telephone mounted to a wall of your home to have a phone conversation, don't you? (Probably the same year that you purchased the stock of that company that serviced pay phones!)
64% responded never? Never is a long time.
I'll bet the individuals who responded 2013 know more about Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) than I do.
Thank you for your responses! And for allowing me to tease those who responded "never". Please Facebook me in 2015 if you're still mad at me, and I'll try to make it right.
Thank you for sharing 67 seconds of your day,
Smitty
2 comments:
My gut reaction was "no way" because obama ran such a youth-oriented, tech-centered campaign . Lise, however, added in that with anti-republican sentiment running so high, and especially that he was the first African-American candidate (which is a wonderful thing and shows that the dreams of whole people groups can be actualized) - well, in saying all that, she thought a more temperate answer was in order. Unfortunately, by then we'd already clicked "no way". I'll stick by my vote, but with reservations.
With out email, you won't get notifications that someone posted on your account, you won't be able to receive subscriptions from other sites that you participate in. If you gave those other sites your social networking account, then you permit one central company to know everything about you: what products you like, where you vacation, who you hang out with, etc...
It's very dangerous for us to treat the internet as if it's a private arena or that it's public but no-one is using the information about us to do us harm.
If you look at the most popular apps for Andoid, Iphone or those on social networking sites, most request access to some if not all of your private data (contacts, phone numbers, data on your device, who your friends are...).
People should not be installing these apps without understanding the consequences to what they are permitting others to see. But I digress. No one party should have that much information about us, that's why I will never stop using email. No company should know anything about my social media account. I have even thought of hosting my own email in house because of this, but the cost would be very high and I've not been willing to take that leap. :)
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