If you want to show people something, but it's not important enough to send an email. Email is better suited to targeted communication, whereas with facebook you can just post inane crap all day and people will ignore it if they aren't interested.
I think the real reason blogs took off was that their owners took control of them, you can't (To my knowledge) setup your own exclusive Usenet group to be run however you like. With a blog you can have this absolute control and ownership. Mailing lists did get replaced by forums, but those lists were owned by a single entity who chose to switch to a different platform. These changeovers are nothing like what is being suggested in the Wall St Journal. Email is not controlled by a single entity there are millions of people running their own mail servers, it cannot really be compared to switching a mailing list (owned/managed by one entity into a forum).
For facebook to replace email would be akin to GoogleTalk replacing phones.
I forgot to mention Facebook and Twitter are also totally incompatable with anything not on their own system. I can't request a new/. password be sent to my facebook account, or any paypal invoices
Not to mention Facebook and Twitter are totally closed systems. Both you and the recipient need a Facebook account in order to communicate via Facebook. In contrast no one that I exchange email with has the same provider as me.
Email is right there with Phone number and Postal address.
Facebook and Twitter are one the same level as messaging someone through any third party website, many discussion forums have messaging features by default.
I personally do not consider having a sigle backup to be adequate. Which is why services like Jungle disk are so useful because now 3 things need to fail simultaneously for me to lose the data.
1. Theft or Fire causing loss of computer.
2. Theft or fire causing loss of external hard drive located in another building.
Don't forget a nuclear power station might blow and cause you never to be able to return to that location again. No one ever thinks it will happen until it does.
Slashdot Mirror
So long as books cost more than the paper they are printed on, is there ever a need to "Buy" a book.
If i thought I was going to get $10M my performance would drop too
There is a mobile.slashdot.org
and a http://sex.slashdot.org/
Last time I asked, CmdrTaco's response was that slashdot is not concerned about development for mobile devices.
Lets just hope it stays that way to spare us Eternal September.
Seriously if you thought AOL users were bad, they are nothing compared to iPhone users.
Not to mention the device is supposed to be a phone.
The iPhone is a fashion accessory marketed towards, well idiots. While their all on facebook the rest of us can enjoy using proper phones.
Thats what email is good for, people just click the links.
But he hasn't stolen our imaginary property yet.
Email evolves, anyone who used it back in it's early days will be able to testify to that.
So, I'm all for anything that makes it impossible to keep attachments directly with the message!
A decent mail policy?
Exactly, the problem is not with email, but people's implementations.
I find that facebook fills a niche.
If you want to show people something, but it's not important enough to send an email.
Email is better suited to targeted communication, whereas with facebook you can just post inane crap all day and people will ignore it if they aren't interested.
I think the real reason blogs took off was that their owners took control of them, you can't (To my knowledge) setup your own exclusive Usenet group to be run however you like. With a blog you can have this absolute control and ownership. Mailing lists did get replaced by forums, but those lists were owned by a single entity who chose to switch to a different platform. These changeovers are nothing like what is being suggested in the Wall St Journal. Email is not controlled by a single entity there are millions of people running their own mail servers, it cannot really be compared to switching a mailing list (owned/managed by one entity into a forum).
For facebook to replace email would be akin to GoogleTalk replacing phones.
SPF records do a pretty good job at identifying spoofed emails.
Even without any SPF people know about forged email, apart from the wankers who continue to bounce spam.
Amateur journalism, what more do you expect?
I forgot to mention Facebook and Twitter are also totally incompatable with anything not on their own system. I can't request a new /. password be sent to my facebook account, or any paypal invoices
Not to mention Facebook and Twitter are totally closed systems. Both you and the recipient need a Facebook account in order to communicate via Facebook. In contrast no one that I exchange email with has the same provider as me.
Email is right there with Phone number and Postal address.
Facebook and Twitter are one the same level as messaging someone through any third party website, many discussion forums have messaging features by default.
Which is why people need to have backups.
I personally do not consider having a sigle backup to be adequate. Which is why services like Jungle disk are so useful because now 3 things need to fail simultaneously for me to lose the data.
1. Theft or Fire causing loss of computer.
2. Theft or fire causing loss of external hard drive located in another building.
3. Something heppening to the jungle disk copy.
If they were in the USA the MPAA would probably sentence them to life in prison.
What makes you think the media companies are less likely to accuse you?
The guy is just a senile old man at this stage. Murdoch is nologer of sound mind.
Send all your DVDs to me. I promise to keep them safe.
Guess what else won't work? Your house just got burned down so your data lines are GONE.
Because a phone line is totally irreplaceable. You could never get internet access out of any line other than the one that got burnt.
What if your house was to burn down?
The purpose of a remote backup is to safe guard against the destruction of the data's geographical location.
Alternatively you can use jungle disk and save yourself countless trips to the bank.
Don't forget a nuclear power station might blow and cause you never to be able to return to that location again. No one ever thinks it will happen until it does.