So says the Wall Street Journal.    Its reign as the king of communications is over.  In its place, services like Twitter and Facebook are profoundly rewriting the way we communicate. 

“Email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.”

I can’t imagine that FB or Twitter will ever replace email for business purposes.  But of course, someone like me probably said that about snail mail 20 years ago.

Privacy issues, social networking