Have you heard the latest on the demise of email? Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook says, “Email is probably going away.” Here’s the YouTube video clip.


Ms. Sandberg states, “If you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow, look at what teenagers are doing today.” She continues, “…only 11 percent of teenagers send daily emails while text messages and posts on social networking sites have become the norm.”

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Wow, very interesting and talk about something I can relate to. I can't tell you how many times I have searched for past friends on Facebook and made connections with people from my childhood. I have also made connections with complete strangers (some who actually were organ transplant recipients, in fact).

I remember when I had Pen Pals as a teenager -- checking the mail every day - waiting for a letter from a friend on the other side of the world - boy was that so exciting. Now, I converse with people all over the world, every single day and usually get a response within minutes (if I am using something like Twitter). The internet has changed the way we interact with each other, indeed. It will certainly be interesting to see how Social Media changes the shape of that interaction even moreso, in the future as well.

Thank you so much for the post Janine.

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Thank you, Darlene.

It was rather disturbing to me at first to hear this news as I am quite dependent upon email as I am sure you are as well. I sat for a while thinking how my job (and my life) would change without email and slowly I came around...it is inevitable that change will come.

I imagined NOT emailing my clients and NOT sending a friend an email and thought about new technology that I may need to invest in along with how my typical day would change. I also thought about how I would need to learn to communicate in a different manner...shorter sentences, abbreviations, with greater speed and comprehension. Of course, I was brainstorming but it got me thinking.

And I wondered how it might change my job description overall.

Thanks for reading. It is always nice to hear from you.

Janine

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I do see what you're saying, Janine. I think, however, it won't be an overnight change. More gradual...like the emergence of email. 10 years ago we communicated mostly by postal mail and telephone. Then email slowly became the norm-today it is common to communicate by email. Trends are now moving towards friends, family and business associates connecting on social media sites. I must say, I have the tendency to write looong messages, so for someone like me--it might be a plus. I'd be forced to get to the point or simplybe moved to pick up the phone and call someone. Now how cool would it be if the disappearence of email made people pick up the phone? Now that would be a change for the better, IMO.

I do customer service for a client and rather than respond to an email, I'll sometimes pick up the phone and call to help a customer that way. It's easier and oftentimes the response I get is "Wow, it's nice to know there really is another person on the other side willing to help me out."

So long story short, change will come--we probably won't notice it because it will be gradual...but will almost certainly have the tried and true methods of contact at our fingertips.

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Darlene Victoria Gonzalez
The Voice & Vision Behind Your Business