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I found this article Interesting from the "Father" of email..
So why would anyone continue to use email in the age of social media?
“Because none of them really fill the space that email serves, which is you have a specific audience,†answers Ray Tomlinson, a principal engineer at BBN Technologies and the so-called “father of email."
“A lot [of the alternatives] are like a billboard, with limited utility - you put these things on the billboard, and if they choose to they [your audience] can look and see it.â€
“But email has the time difference - that is, you send it now, you read it later - you don’t have to have someone sitting there and ready to respond like you do with instant messaging to make it work and make it effective,†Tomlinson explains. “You can use instant messaging that way, but if they’re not there, nothing happens, and you gotta remember that there may be a message coming back to you and go back to the IM client and look for the response.â€
So why would anyone continue to use email in the age of social media?
“Because none of them really fill the space that email serves, which is you have a specific audience,†answers Ray Tomlinson, a principal engineer at BBN Technologies and the so-called “father of email."
“A lot [of the alternatives] are like a billboard, with limited utility - you put these things on the billboard, and if they choose to they [your audience] can look and see it.â€
“But email has the time difference - that is, you send it now, you read it later - you don’t have to have someone sitting there and ready to respond like you do with instant messaging to make it work and make it effective,†Tomlinson explains. “You can use instant messaging that way, but if they’re not there, nothing happens, and you gotta remember that there may be a message coming back to you and go back to the IM client and look for the response.â€