E-mail in the decline... still?

Email is Far From Dead

I recently read this article from MediaShift. Dorian Benkoil discusses on how constantly for the past five years, news outlets have claimed that media is slowly becoming outdated. Certain social media platforms are taking over, and society prefers the "more" instant version of IM that such outlets as Facebook and Myspace have implemented, or the instant service Twitter provides.

Dorian is very right in the sense that these alternatives are very competitive, but also correct in saying e-mail just seems to be a safer source. People tend to think of their e-mail password as a lot more sensative than their social media passwords, and the fact of attatchments and such that are directly from one's server to another (for the most part) gives users confidence.

The use of e-mail with Facebook, Twitter, LinkdIn, etc gives e-mail more value, as you can check your e-mail once and see all the notifications from each service. It serves as a very simple aggregator, using the platform's preference options to determine what exactly you're notified of.

E-mail is definitely not on the decline, as everyone's been saying for the past five years but is proven to be the most secure form of communication and allows for users to aggregate all of their notifications into a simple subject line on their inbox.