Is e-mail dead? Hardly

From InfoWorld:

A flurry of blogs and news items on the Internet last week suggested that young Internet users are increasingly relying on instant messaging, texting, and social networking sites to communicate, often via mobile devices, and almost to the exclusion of e-mail.

One of those blogs, by Chad Lorenz at Slate, even asserted that “e-mail is looking obsolete,” under the headline “The Death of E-Mail.”

But the reality is much more complex. Some market reports and analysts predict that e-mail accounts will continue to grow as other messaging modes gain popularity and as use of the Internet expands globally.

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