Essay Outline

Is Email Dead??

Websites:
http://advice.cio.com/miles_a_smith/is_email_dead
http://email.about.com/cs/spamgeneral/a/email_is_dead.htm
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/04/03/i-only-use-email-to-communicate-with-old-people/
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_2.15.08.htm
http://www.pewinternet.org/topics.asp?page=2&c=3

Journal articles - Workplace user frustration with computers: an exploratory investigation of the causes and severity.
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Include history of email – when it was first invented, when did msn etc come into and what happened to email when other uses of communication were introduced. Who primarily used it when it was first introduced?
What was it first used for and how has this changed today?

How alternatives to email have affected the lifeline of email?
The introduction to instant messaging and webcam – how did this take away from email?
Networking sites that allow for comments and messaging. Can this still be considered email. And if not has it taken the place of email.
The popularity of cell phones has txting and calling meant less emails.

Who uses email, and over the years how have they contributed to the lifeline of email? What factors contribute to there email use?
People overseas – keeping up to date with people back home.
Business people – instead of face-to-face meetings. Keeps a record.
Students – often a percentage that don’t know how to access it.
Who do people most often email? Family or friends or colleagues?
Does Generation Y or X use email more and what do they use it for? Will Generation Z bring email back to life or kill it for good?

Maybe also think about:
Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo. Outlook Express etc. – does a particular email network influence how the email gets used.

The influence of spam and prank emails – has this made people not want to use email anymore. Who is the most gullible to this sort of forwarding emails.
Has safety become an issue to greatly effect email?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php

http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/21/technology/myspace.fortune/index.htm


After talking with Adam and researching further my main issue/topic is going to be about how email has evolved alongside networking sites etc. and how networking sites can be considered just another form of email. I also want to touch on the different age groups that use email or networking sites and who they use what to communicate with.