Is Email Facebook's Competitor?

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece questioning whether or not social features in email will help drive traffic back to email. The current trend is away from email and toward social networking sites including Facebook. I am personally experiencing a similar trend. Last month I highlighted the fact that Facebook needs to upgrade their messaging system. I’m hoping that this is one of their priorities currently.

Seb Chan argues that casual email users “are already logging in to a website regularly to ‘check their email’ so it is more efficient for them to use login to a social networking website where they can do the same email check and keep track of their friends.”

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