I’ve noticed more and more that people communicate with the message feature in facebook/friendster/myspace instead of email. Whatever happened to email? I personally think it’s more accessible. I don’t want to have to log in to some third-party service to see a message from someone. Am I already getting old and behind the times? I feel like I’m entrenched in my emails and unwilling to accept new technology.
Though honestly, how are facebook messages better than email? I may not see messages people send me via facebook/friendster/myspace for days, whereas email is delivered straight to my inbox. Instant gratification. Maybe the problem is that I just don’t sign into those things often enough. In that sense, I guess I am getting old that I don’t see the appeal of myspace to log in every five minutes and read my messages.
Here here. E-mail is so much more personal too! When someone write you on Facebook, you can tell the scenario was probably that they signed in, picked you out of their list of 8 million friends because you had been active recently, and then decided to write. And usually it’s something brief and of zero substance. E-mail says, “I was actually thinking of you without cue and wanted to say more than just ‘Hey what’s up catch you later!’” :-p