[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[mathew]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 17:34, Seth <sethb at panix.com> wrote:

> They don't necessarily fail.  LiveJournal, Twitter, FaceBook, etc. are
> all walled gardens, and they all work fine.
>
> They just don't _replace_ other technologies.


http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2007/07/11/facebook-email/

http://mashable.com/2007/11/07/uk-social-networks-email-clients/

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/04/03/i-only-use-email-to-communicate-with-old-people/

I too get more personal messages from friends via Facebook than I do via
e-mail, which is why I say that if we just sit here insisting that the spam
problem can't be solved, e-mail will just fragment into walled gardens like
we had before the Internet.


mathew
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