Garth linked on Facebook to an important article in the Globe and Mail:

The medium is no longer the message
E-mail appears increasingly passé as social-networking sites overtake it for fourth place in overall online activity

“Increasingly, e-mail is yesterday’s messaging platform”

I’ve been somewhat on the cutting edge of technology for years.

But in 2009 I feel I’m falling behind.

I like email. I want to be able to send you a direct message.

But more and more people don’t bother checking their email very often. They are too busy speaking on the phone, texting by phone, updating to Facebook.

Email has a huge spam problem, and efforts to stop spam frequently block legitimate messages. It’s quicker to use Twitter, Facebook or an instant messaging service and there’s less chance your message will be lost or blocked.

Social networking and blogs now more popular than email, says Nielsen

Why can’t they fix email?

Yeesh.