Comments on: Social Networks Pressuring Traditional Email, IM Channels

By: SugarSync Sweetens Its Social Offerings – GigaOM

SugarSync Sweetens Its Social Offerings – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:10:30 +0000

[...] LinkedIn. This feature replaces the need to send a file by email, which may reinforce the trend of people spending more time on social networks and less on traditional email programs. Since the folks over at WebWorkerDaily last reviewed SugarSync, it’s incorporated more [...]

By: Social Networks: Wherever You Go, There They Are

Social Networks: Wherever You Go, There They Are — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:10:20 +0000

[...] Our real lives are increasingly starting to converge with social networks. For example, the latest version of Facebook’s iPhone app lets you call and text your friends from directly within it. Social networks are even replacing communication tools like email and IM. [...]

By: E-mail as an Alert System | Sharing at Work

E-mail as an Alert System | Sharing at Work — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:06:31 +0000

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By: Cisco’s $3B Reason to Love Tandberg

Cisco’s $3B Reason to Love Tandberg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:31:28 +0000

[...] to digest another large acquisition, it’s clear that faster broadband speeds are changing the way we communicate at a rapid pace, and that sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Or perhaps $3 [...]

By: okwhen

okwhen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:39 +0000

People using these mediums to keep in contact with long distance friends and loved ones are enjoying greater benefits over simple snail mail. However, many people are living in a virtual world and loosing touch with reality. They are loosing the ability of personal interaction and limiting themselves to a non-existence world. Friends are hard to come by and requires in person nurturing.

Humans are social animals and require interaction that includes all of our senses. The virtual world gives people the ability to say and act in a written script. The majority of people would never use these scripts in the real world. Becoming a socialite in the virtual world my result in becoming a hermit in the real one.

By: Interesting, social networks/tools replacing emails as form of communication… « Life of a Gaander

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:31:56 +0000

[...] Social Networks Pressuring Traditional Email, IM Channels via GigaOM » Web by Jennifer Martinez on 9/17/09 [...]

By: Daily Links for September 18th | Akkam's Razor

Daily Links for September 18th | Akkam's Razor — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:02:08 +0000

[...] Social Networks Pressuring Traditional Email, IM Channels – People are spending less time on communication sites that are focused around email and instant messaging, according to an analysis released today by the Online Publishers Association, a trade organization, a decline it attributes to the rising popularity of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Indeed, posting photos and videos to social networks is an easy way to engage people in your social graph and show them what’s going on in your life, and many feature their own built-in email and IM capabilities. And Facebook’s internal user engagement numbers back up the OPA’s findings; it claims some 1 billion chat messages are sent each day and 2 billion photos are uploaded to the site each month. [...]

By: Kendall Weaver

Kendall Weaver — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:28:50 +0000

I’ve never had an account on either Myspace or Facebook, however Twitter is revolutionizing the way I communicate. Since obtaining a smart phone with a Twitter client I use SMS messaging maybe 20% of what I used to. Virtually all of my close friends have Twitter accounts (and check them often) and the ability to have them all see something I post is significantly more efficient than selecting names for a mass text, or resending the same or similar messages over and over. I also make a lot of use of the ‘direct message’ function, using it as an obvious texting alternative with the added bonus of me not having to save, remember, or even know someone’s phone number. Twitter has also significantly cut down on the amount of time I spend using my phone as a phone. At work it’s far more effective for me to carry on a passive ongoing conversation using Twitter than it is for me to stop doing what I’m doing for several minutes to take a personal phone call.

By: DailyBooth Grabs VC Attention

DailyBooth Grabs VC Attention — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:07:08 +0000

[...] dashboard and actually seeing what their friends are up to.” Indeed, yesterday we wrote that photos are a sticky feature on social networks like Facebook, which has caused people to spend less time on sites focused around email and instant messaging. In [...]

By: HSK

HSK — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:13:13 +0000

I am an old guy and was around when email was THE thing other than your phone – and it still is for me, my friends and work. I used IM for a few years, but now that is dead as far as I am concerned – and as far as those I connect with regularly. I use Facebook some for family and I use SMS often. I also use Twitter, but more professionally than personally. However, my 17 yr old daughter uses FB Chat exclusively – well that and a couple of thousand SMS messages a month.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:02:40 +0000

Same. I don’t consider photos or updates posted on Facebook to be personal communication. The posters are broadcasting some part of themselves, and not thinking of me or our relationship when they do so. These broadcast updates do have value, but less than the form letter updates some people send with holiday cards (with the cards, at least someone took the trouble to mail something directly to you…).

Email, phone, IM, or (horrors!) face-to-face conversation are how I communicate with family, colleagues or real friends.

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:40:37 +0000

I call my inner circle, family. For all, I use facebook to interact.

By: D.S.

D.S. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:48:26 +0000

<b>When there are only 24-hours in a day, I think the “easiest” method will prevail in most cases. `Hence the popularity of Facebook Photos (which is a clearly inferior product compared to Flickr, SmugMug, etc.).

By: Veit

Veit — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:55:05 +0000

In short: No. Facebook and social networks are in my “outer” circle of friends (friends, casual friends and acquaintances) and often have more of a short broadcast quality with more infrequent quick replies. With my “inner” circle or if these are “in-depth” conversations, I use Skype/GTalk for IM or simply email depending on where they are at, since I want to keep these private.

I look at real friend conversations similar to business conversations – I don’t conduct these over Facebook, either

By: Jim Ayson

Jim Ayson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:40:29 +0000

Hi Om – what about mobile messaging like SMS – do you think social networking is (or will in the future) affect mobile messaging traffic?