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Email Versus Social Networks

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Email Versus Social Networks

There has been a lot of discussion about email becoming an obsolete application and that social networking will eventually take its place.

Max Kalehoff

The Pew

To build his case he points to a New York Times blog about Internet companies building their email services into social networks. "Yahoo and Google realize they have this information (email address books) and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts."

Kalehoff is still a fan of social networks and believes they have a big future but finds email to be more reliable form of communication. He writes, "I hope the benefits of the latest wave of social networks will begin to merge seamlessly with the simplicity, compatibility and utility of email. That includes integrated profiling, information feeds, social-network analysis, privacy and controls."

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