Is the Death of Email Upon Us?

According to a latest Nielsen Report, social networking sites and blogs have overtaken the popularity of email as the preferred medium of online communication today. Based on the report two thirds of online users are now using what Nielsen calls us “member communities”. In fact these member communities are now the “fourth most popular web category” following search engines, web portals and PC software. Email was now pushed down to the fifth category. Interestingly, aside from the increasing membership of social networks, and the growing popularity of blogs as a form of communication, what contributed to the growth of the so called “member communities” was related to the growing usage of mobile phones for accessing these “member communities” sites.