Alternative to email?/Yuna Tsushima

Reference: Are we the End of the Email? By Ryan Galloway

 

Email has been used as main communication tool for last some decades in many situation like business and private. But recently email especially in business has some problems and has reached to critical point.

 

According to this article, the main problems are overload, inefficiency and insecurity. Many companies are suffering from email overload and office workers spend 20 days per a year to check through their emails. They have to look at one by one and some of the emails are not important or even spam mails. Speaking if insecurity, in spite of the danger of unprotected emails, business leaders who use an email encryption solution is under 21% of all. But some companies have already taken new sorts to deal with these problems. One of the most popular alternatives is Yammer. It is like Facebook and we can use both individual communication and group communication. And there are also some companies who build their communication platform.

 

I didn’t know Yammer until I read this article and I think it is a little strange that some social networks like Facebook will be used as official ways to communicate among companies because I think the communication using SNS is a kind of informal.  Recently most company has a Facebook page for appealing to public, but it is still not to communicate. But email is also not an old way. As telegram is no longer used as a tool in public dairy, the users of email will be fewer and fewer in the future. In fact, email is not used so much among young people anymore and some social network services became more popular. However, there is a big difference between email and SNS. We can send email to anyone who has an email address, but to use SNS, we have to sign in. So if we want to contact someone by using SNS, we have to confirm that the person has an account of the SNS at first. Some SNS is becoming popular worldwide, but I think there are still some difficulties to use these communication tools as perfect alternative to email.



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