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Inasmuch as instant messaging platforms have been popular especially among the young generation that spends its time on Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp among a host of other free to minimal charge platforms,                           e-mail may prove stronger than expected.
E-mail has really come a long way. As the predominant method of communication today, e-mail has affected and will always affect the lives of many people. Many industries are now relying heavily on the advantageous usefulness of e-mail. Businesses use e-mails in their information campaign and marketing strategies. Consumers of goods and services place orders and send inquiries to companies through e-mail.
E-mail (also known as electronic mail) started its humble beginnings at Arpanet way, way back in 1969. That time, two universities — the UCLA Stanford and the University of Utah — created a two-computer network. Through this network, the two schools started an experiment that culminated in the sharing of data. From this point, the Interface Message Processor (or IMP) was developed.
In December 1971, the Interface Message Processor allowed for the connectivity standard of a network, which eventually evolved into 32 devices. Arpanet continued growing. Ray Tomlinson, who was working as an Arpanet contractor together with Bolt Beranek and Newman, formed the standard pattern for the e-mail address: name of user@computername.
When Arpanet was discovered for its usefulness by the armed forces, the need to increase the capacity to manage data was accelerated. In 1975, Larry Roberts developed a system that managed e-mails through use of folders.
He used this method to sort the e-mails of his boss. This inspired John Vital to develop software that will help organise e-mail consistently. This software evolved many times until it became user-friendly. Gradually, this new-born technology started to spread.
After several years, 75 percent of the traffic through Arpanet consisted of electronic mail or e-mail.
When the need and demand for a consumer-based electronic messaging system continued to increase at a fast pace, the traffic moved beyond Arpanet to a larger traffic network called the Internet.
Since then, e-mail enhanced the efficiency of communication between users from around the world. However, the user’s ability to connect to local providers or other computers was entirely tied to the carrier of telephone charges that is long distance call and international call fees.
The brief history above just goes to show that the existence of the Internet itself, the platform that has brought about the new phenomena of Twitter, MySpace and so on has its foundations in electronic mail.
Not many people are friends with their bosses on Facebook largely because these social networks are for informal communication while formal communication is still being done more through e-mail.
E-mail is an indispensable form of communication as one needs an e-mail to part of the social networks as well as registering on some websites.
A new study from the Radicati Group provides key data and statistics on business and consumer use of e-mail, social media, Instant Messaging (IM), mobile e-mail and Unified Communications (UC). The report includes data on the amount of time corporate and consumer users spend daily on e-mail, instant messaging and social networking.
According to the report, the number of worldwide e-mail accounts is expected to increase from 3,3 billion accounts in 2012 to over 4,3 billion by year-end 2016. However, business and consumer communication is also shifting increasingly to social media and Instant Messaging (IM).
Social networking sites have shown explosive growth in the past year and the total number of active worldwide social networking accounts is expected to top 2,7 billion in 2012, and is projected to grow to over 4,3 billion by 2016. E-mail is one of the immense successes of the Internet. It has helped revolutionise communications and has come close to killing of the standard snail mail letter.
One writer put it that people will check all their e-mails. They assume people e-mail them with important things and put trivial things on Face- book.
Many people are also unable to keep track of their Facebook page and will miss individual posts if it is large. One thing going for e-mail is the spam filter. People also prefer chatting on MSN over G talk or Yahoo or Facebook.
Fact is consumer loyalty stands and software with only exclusive functions keeps us from being positively scatterbrained. They also add organisation to our daily tasks. If you want to check your e-mail you log into your Hotmail, Yahoo, G-mail accounts.

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