Email Sufficiency Debate

What's wrong with email? It's a 40 year old standard that still works great.

Don't say "using email is bad" then in the next paragraph "as easy as email"

99% of the things you do could be equally solved with email.But it would be a worse user experience.

For #3 why not just email? There may be some marginal convenience features to FB, but email has served that purpose reliably since it was invented.

Can't agree moreEmail works O.K for one-way communication (e.g. mailing lists or bill notification). Maybe sometimes infrequent one on one communcationWhen its comes to having a converstation, particularly with multiple people, I can't think of anything worse. I always dread tracking down information when I have to dig into achived mailing lists

For keeping in touch and keeping track, what's wrong with e-mail?

slack and facebook exist because many people view email as insufficientalso, it's email. yes, it's highly insufficient

This.Only partially related, but I'm sick of people coming up with more, 'better' ways to communicate which are then embraced by a subset of my friends and colleagues. My email arrives on my phone, on my laptop, on my (and any) PC, in an easy to read, indexable, exportable and simple format, wherever I am in the world, in near real time. I have had the same email address for ~ 12 years and with Google's spam filter I get zero spam. I actively manage mailing list subscriptions and have

What do you use instead of email?

Makes you wonder if email will someday become so unusable we'll go back to using the post.