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[–] c0mbatbag3l 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember describing to my mom what Facebook was becoming back in like 2013/14 and she goes "Huh, sounds like what happened with email."

The service went from useful communication to social media style chain forwarding nonsense pretty quickly, and they went the same way with FB.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And still email is not dead yet! I hope it's starting to become clear to people that protocols last much longer than platforms, even if platforms look like they can test new things faster.

[–] TheBat 2 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah email!

Good thing we got that sorted in the early stages of internet before corporations got their hands on it. Otherwise we'd have to create separate accounts to send and receive emails from gmail, outlook, and yahoo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about that, email is still great at what it does. It's less that it died and more that people moved on to more real-time communication that fit their needs better, with email still being used for what it is actually good for.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 2 points 1 year ago

Oh absolutely, it's still highly used in a professional environment. I just feel like personal email went through the same thing and now that social media exists it's just another way to communicate again.