My kids are both teenagers, one in college, one in high school. My youngest goes days without checking e-mail, and he spends at least five hours on his computer each and every day. My daughter reads hers, but on her cell phone, and mostly her college e-mail account. I own my last name account on the web for Internet and e-mail, they don't care... We have two land lines at our house, but my son uses Skype to talk to friends over the computer while he games. My daughter lives on her cell phone, that costs me about $100 month...
Now I am older than most of you on this e-mail service, but I remember for the longest time that growing up we had one phone at our house. Now I pay for six lines, four mobile and two in the house. We have 10 extensions on the two phone lines going to our house. >From phone to e-mail to Skype to other online services. Thank goodness I have >cable TV at home, I can hide from the rest of them in front of that... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail... Very interesting article indeed. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ I laughed "hahah no way" at the title, but then I read this line: "I have to admit I didn't see his point until I read a headline recently indicating that 92% of global email traffic is now spam. The fact that most email is junk isn't news as the percent of measured spam has been hovering around 90% for quite some time. The fact that spam has dominated the email landscape for so long is helping to drive some interesting user behaviors, however. We're starting to see reports that some users (mostly young) are giving up email entirely in favor of social media. While I think many email users will have problems doing this, it makes a certain amount of sense.." At my IT Garage clients SPAM hovers around 95-96% and if you think about it, using social networking messaging is very much like having a "deny all except specifically whitelisted senders". Thoughts and comments welcome! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Keller, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
