Texts to kill email? Er, no.
So, according to a professor from the University of Kent, quoted in today's Metro newspaper, the text generation will let email die out by 2020. What a load of old nonsense.
This conclusion has been drawn by only around half of people in teens or early 20s using email as a first choice of communication. Well of course - they're not in jobs!
Just wait till they have to send lengthy reports with spreadsheets attached or fabricate wild explanations about why they're going to be two hours late into the office.
Imagine a world where CEOs text people to say 'Stox dwn' or 'Ur fired'. Never going to happen.
Nope, texting and tweeting have their place, but there's still a place for the formality of email. What the future holds will merely be ways that all these means of communication will be integrated better into devices - like they are on the Vodafone Samsung H1 and Motorola DEXT.
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dave_clark_f1ve
2 years ago
If anything I would say it will end up being the other way around. With emails being more and more common on mobile phones and able to send images and files as attachments as well as the message itself, plus limited by data levels rather than word count I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if eventually everyone stops sending text messages and is zipping emails off their phones and so on rather than combos of SMS and MMS.
NunoB
2 years ago
It's quite weird that email is considered a 'formal' mode of communication nowadays.
But you're right, it won't die out. Though it might turn purple and choke under all that spam.
The day I receive a text saying 'OMG therez a managment m33ting in rm 1 LOL!!1!eleven' is the day I'll retire.
Rev Aardvark
2 years ago
The descent into poor practice, such as text speak, began well before the advent of mobile technology. I remember well, in 1970, a student teacher saying 'call me Jeff', this was the start of a decline in our educational standards, to the point where anyone can gain an A* in whatever subject by turning up. That 'text speak' is common parlance demonstrates, not as some may say as a quick way of communication, but a demonstration of the abject stupidity in the majority our population.
Until such time it is realised that today's educational standards are a joke, the majority of those with an "A' level would not have passed an eleven plus in the late 60's/early 70's, then we must realise this country is finished. The 'smart' countries have a formal, rigid & regulated system, based on hard work/knowledge and not this namby pamby nonsense of allowing access for all.
Let's be honest here, you don't see many teenagers in Singapore cycling around their city, on very small bikes, in tracksuits & baseball hats!
Drunken Max
2 years ago
Language always develops over time. Otherwise we'd have the James the 1st Dictionary to match the James 1st Bible. Email is recognised as an acceptable form of corrspondance that is legally binding between companies. It wasn't once. I somehow don't think that text or twitter will manage that just yet. Email has replaced letters and I guess texting has replaced emails to a limited extent. It all depends on whether you have an attention span greater than a goldfish as to what you prefer.