Email could disappear in just a decade, giving way to Twitter-like messaging services and social media. It is the conclusion of a study carried out by social anthropologists from the University of Kent (United Kingdom) and commissioned by the telephone company TalkTalk. The results show that only 51% of adolescents and young people currently choose e-mail as a form of communication.
David Zeitlyn, co-author of the study, assures that there is currently a trend towards the style “one and done” ( “one and done” in English) , which consists of sending short messages like Twitter (limited to 140 characters) to communicate something several contacts at the same time, which saves us a lot of time and favors immediate communication. Not surprisingly, in the last year the use of the Twitter microblogging service has experienced an explosive growth of 1,300%.
In older generations, email is still the dominant one, with 96% use among adult Internet users aged 45 to 64, and 98% among those over 65 years of age.
