The Death of Email & Spam Online

Recently in class we have been discuss the death of the World Wide Web due to Smartphones, Iphones, Ipads, ect. Today when reading the news online I found this website that suggest email is now dead. The article from Fox News says that email is becoming too troublesome and annoying with all of the spam and viruses that it now has. It says that since texting and bbming has become so easy, people would rather send a text than send an email. It also says emails are "too formal." I totally agree with that. Sometimes I would rather text my mom than send her an email because I find myself being too formal when I am typing an email. The same applies with my friends or family members. Texting is just so much easier. Another interesting thing I learned from the article is that Facebook just announced it has going to have a new messaging system that will be easier than email. Here is a quote from the article that describes the new messaging system...

"Facebook's system will recognize that and send quick notes and messages to those people's e-mail accounts. It will also recognize that you usually parlay with your girlfriend through text messages and only send your love missives to her that way. Plus there will be none of that onerous subject-line stuff any more."

I am excited to see this new system. I doubt I will use it, at least not at first. However, if it becomes popular, I wouldn't be opposed to it. The author of the article thinks it may be overwhelming to users at first, but then again, so was Facebook chat and that became a huge hit. I think Facebook chat may have totally replaced AIM and Ichat. I hardly know anyone that goes on AIM anymore and the only time my friends use Ichat is to video chat. Facebook is pairing with AOL to create this messaging center so I am curious to see what it is like. Keep an eye out for it!

Speaking of spam online and with emails...there has also been a lot of spam on Facebook lately. Did any of you hear of the page that says "A girl kills herself because of what her dad posted on Facebook!" I saw it but thankfully never clicked on it. This website says that it was all a scam! When you click on it you will be forced to share the page with all of your friends. The article says that Facebook needs to clean up its spam so that people do not end up getting viruses from clicking on these various sites. It says that Facebook is more powerful than the people creating these scams so they should be able to handle this. I searched this scam on Facebook and it still comes up in the search engine. I hope that Facebook gets a handle on this soon before it creates a problem for its users!