Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead
I got online since 1997 when I got a 14.4 kbps modem from my sister's friend. I just realised that it has already been 10 years! Wow! How could this be? I thought e-mail was still the simplest technology to keep in touch with people, while SNS was so complicated. But apparently young people think the other way.
In SNS, you have to log in and click around to check what your friends are doing, sometimes it gets so irritating having to check different networks for different people. It reminds me of the time when ICQ was still alive ("What is ICQ? Uncle", some teens might ask :P Give yourself an education here) and Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger were still infants, people tended to use different IMs and you had to keep different clients running at the same time (believe me, you wouldn't like doing this on a Pentium 166 MMX with a mere 48MB RAM).
Luckily, someone came up with all-in-one clients which can communicate with all major IMs and that did help a bit. I did not benefit from that since I have settled down with MSN messenger for a long time.
What is next? A multi-site-compliant SNS, or SNS-for-SNS in short? I am really looking forward to it. :^D
2 comments:
YoYo... Happy 10 aniversary then.. hehe
Actually what I can't understand is why
those "kids" tend to post private messages on to the comment board of SNS instead of using the messaging function.
Why making private messages public. Weird.
Maybe the conclusion is "kids" don't know how to use functions accordingly. hehe
I think communication can be seen from two perspectives: recorded vs. off-record and private vs. public. From this you get 4 kinds of communication:
1. Recorded Public
2. Recorded Private
3. Off-record Public
4. Off-record Private
While the first one is only suitable for formal conversations, the last one with least restrictions is for personal level conversations. I am not very sure whether the third one is actually feasible, but the second one is for lovers :-P.
Kids, now you know how to use which types of communication in which situations? :P (I hate this coz it makes me sound so old...(><))
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