Student / Alumni use of Online Communications

Wed, 2007-05-09 15:44Daniel Watts
Well the other Watts beat me to the first post! You're on the ball Oli. I also just want to say that I'm looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow. My interests involve how young people are using the web and internet for communication and how people see this evolving. Will IM eventually kill Email? Will spam get to it first?

Or will Facebook kill everything else? Looking at the number of facebook alerts coming through our servers it strikes me that email, in this case, is acting as a dumb notification technology, telling the user when to log in? to a certain website to check their messages.

If you have any ideas / visions / prophecies I'd love to hear them. You'll find me tomorrow - though perhaps minus the party hat and chicken...

Dan

I think its going to be a

I think its going to be a healthy mix of all kinds of things. I think with the new Blackberry handsets/tech that are coming out, along with the iPhone, email will make a bit of comeback.

I also wouldn't underestimate the power of something like Twitter :)

Oli