Email the next dodo? Yes, according to professor David Zeitlyn
by Katie
Lamborn
Email may die out within the decade - according to a Kent
university professor.
Youngsters are now opting for Twitter and Facebook to reach a
larger number of people in one fell swoop.
Social anthropologist Professor David Zeitlyn at the University
of Kent at Canterbury conducted research on the UK’s internet
habits on behalf of TalkTalk.
It seems people in their teens and early 20s don’t like being
stuck at a desk so prefer to keep in the loop with Instant
Messaging, supplemented with text messages when they are out and
about.
Email is going out of style with 15- 24 year olds: 86 per cent
of the age group use email compared to 98 per cent of people aged
65 or over.
Mark Schmid from TalkTalk says:
“Increasingly people want to send quick, short messages reaching
many people in one go, and there are now better ways of doing that
than via email. Based on the trends we’re seeing now, email could
well be on its last legs by the end of the next decade.”
Wednesday, November 18 2009
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