Posts Tagged ‘IM’

I hate email. There, I’ve said it. It is distracting, time consuming and perhaps just one in ten has anything useful / interesting to say.

So I was mildly horrified to read new research today from TalkTalk which claimed that email would die out within ten years - will it really take that long? I feel that as a personal communications tool it has served its purpose and been superseded by IM, texting and social networks.

And I’d suggest that it is now the biggest workplace productivity sapper since Stick Cricket. I’d estimate that I spend at least 25 per cent of my time reading and checking emails that just didn’t need to be sent. IM is far more effective for quick communication and Twitter also allows me to connect with colleagues, journalists and suppliers - so why cling onto email for another ten tortuous years?

Lets begin the migration of our contacts to IM/Twitter and end this email madness ASAP. Who is in?