On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:44, David Lum <[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
I don't use FB, and get no particular email from LinkedIn. No land line, no TV, no IM - just Internet access via Comcast cable at home, and a cell phone. I don't do text messages (aside from the few I get when I have the on-call phone from $WORK), and stay off my cell phone as much as possible - keeping conversations as short as possible when on it. On this account I subscribe to something more than 25 lists (haven't counted recently), covering security, freebsd, windows, exchange, and other computing technologies, and sift through perhaps 300-500 emails a day. I get around 50-100 items in my spam folder per day, and will mark as spam maybe 2 or 3 per day that have landed in my inbox, and rescue 2 or 3 items per week from the spam folder. For me, email is still *the* killer app. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
