Social Network Messaging Surpasses Email

Earlier this week, Hitwise released data that showed social network messaging traffic surpassing e-mail in the United Kingdom. Whether or not this data can be expanded outside of the U.K., it does illustrate the new trend. Recently, I have been receiving almost as many messages on Facebook as I have via email. Could you imagine receiving a hundred messages daily via any social network?

None of the social networks currently offer efficient messaging tools. One significant feature that appears to be lacking from all the social network messaging systems is search.

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