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Re:The Decline and Fall of Email by rapind on Sunday November 28, 2010 @10:03AM (#1947433)
"every wall or chat posting makes unnecessary at least one e-mail, maybe several."

Really? The noisy little comments and messages on facebook would have been emails? He must have been getting a lot of one word emails then like "sup", "hey liked the post", "i agree", "nailed it", "you're wrong", "me too", "here's 20 completely irrelevant links", etc.

Email still serves a purpose (one that most of us rely on). Here's my question. What would impact your life more, the utter disappearance of email or the utter disappearance of Facebook?

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Re:The Decline and Fall of Email by chadp on Sunday November 28, 2010 @10:11AM (#1947444)
Disappearance of facebook would affect me less than zero. Like throwing away a pair of socks with holes in them.

I could not work or live without email however.

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Re:The Decline and Fall of Email by rapind on Sunday November 28, 2010 @10:51AM (#1947512)
Exactly. Email is still the killer app of the Internet.
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Re:The Decline and Fall of Email by samatman on Sunday November 28, 2010 @12:01PM (#1947618)
I actually wish Facebook would utterly disappear.

Okay, not really; that would in fact ruin a lot of people's day. But from my selfish perspective, it would fix the only problem with quitting Facebook: All my friends are still using it.

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