E-mail is 'so' yesterday.

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Thought it was funny.

The other day needed contact information from someone who was a little bit younger than me. I asked for an e-mail address. Got a funny look, like 'huh? e-mail? who uses e-mail these days?'.

Text messaging is the way to go now...
#off topic forum #email #yesterday
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  • A little off topic, but I was attending a conference and they were using text messaging to run live polls using the technology of polleverywhere.com

    I think text messaging technology should look into expanding the characters allowed.
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    • Funny thing is, text messaging probably will only have a lifecycle of maybe another 2-3 years, if that, before something replaces it.

      So by the time you get the new characters, "text messaging" will be "so" yesterday. People will probably think you are an old guy talking about how you text message.
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  • Email is still great for my business. To be honest I still prefer to use the phone as my main communication method. I dont care for twitter or any other crap
  • Thanks to Blackberry I prefer email than text messages...
  • I think email is still Number one. text messaging is limited but is very powerful.
  • Boy, could you imagine, all of use trying to text message all the stuff we share.

    Maybe audio might be the go. We can just get online and click a button and bombard others with little audio snippets. mmmmm.... I don't think so.

    I have enough trouble trying to read and understand some of the stuff that gets typed here, never mind trying to understand someone new to speaking english.
  • Ok myob,

    I'll bite.....what is NFC, QR codes and Aglets?
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    • Aglets are the little plastic tips on shoelaces. Not sure about the other stuff.
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    • QR codes are basically bar codes which can be scanned by mobile phones to get a bunch of info. That's pretty cool.

      They're popping up a lot on business cards. Interesting article about it...

      What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code | Fast Company
  • I was having this conversation the other day and my friend said that texting will soon be replaced by something more advanced. I asked if he had any thoughts on what that might be. He said, "Imagine if you could just speak into your phone and the person you were messaging heard your voice and then could respond simply by speaking their message back."

    I looked at him with all seriousness and asked, "What would you call it?" He said, "I don't know, maybe voice texting?"

    I waited a couple of seconds and then said, "How about we call it a 'phone call'?" He was clearly embarrassed when he said, "Oh ya, I guess that already exists."
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    • Haha, now that's funny!
    • I'm not from the texting generation so I don't like it but I do use it just about every day. But I just can't see how that's more convenient than that cool, futuristic thing Brian was talking about... "phone conversation" interesting.

      I'm still waiting for the cool flying cars or at least the Jetson-like rocket-jet packs that were supposed to be mainstream by now. But no we got fancy typing "technology"... old man Alan shakes fist at... texting.
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    • Yes I agree email is so yesterday. Lets see I sent an email out earlier and within 20 minutes made $270.

      Yep not going to do that anymore.

      Tim
  • I don't think I could ever use texting as my main form of communication. I can't trust myself not to lose my phone, and most phones don't have the capacity to hold years of messages.
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  • Email is so yesterday that yesterday I paid all of my bills with earnings from email marketing campaigns that I set up the day before yesterday and still had some left over for tomorrow! Whew!

    essere ricchi,

    David
  • Email is important for business but if you just want to chat you might want to try BlackBerry Messenger???
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    • Aglets are so 14th century. The first materials used for aglets was stone, although they also have been made of metal, glass, and even precious metals, such as silver.

      Less expensive aglets can be fashioned out of adhesive tape, wax, resin, glue, thread, heat shrink or metal tubing, and by simply knotting or melting the end of the shoestring. There is a subtle distinction between aglets, which are generally functional, and aiguillettes, which are generally decorative such as for military dress uniforms.

      The function of aglets are vital for the protection against fraying shoelaces, and make shoes easier to lace. Most aglets today are made of plastic and sales in the US alone tops nearly 200,000,000 per day.

      You can make your own aglets at home and cash in on the booming demand for aglet sales and repair.

      Ian's Shoelace Site - Aglet Sales and Repair
  • The future will be just so tomorrow...

    EBR: great story.
  • I imagine he/she must not have a Facebook account either.
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