Can Facebook Work Chat Finally Kill Email?

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Startups love slack and I don't think that's changing anytime soon.

Big companies... Well, I can't imagine VP's in corporate America hopping on Facebook to message their direct reports.

Microsoft has a pretty good foothold on this market simply by owning Skype.

Perhaps this is a scheme to kill auditors by giving them massive heart attacks. "Oh, don't worry, it's not like Facebook has a reputation for dredging any and all input data for every scrap of monetizable information."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... In other words, no: Claiming to have solved one use case of e-mail (and thus e-mail is done and gone) is very startupish, but slightly exaggerated. Slightly.

(Not to mention that so-called "solution" is "just throw all your business data down Facebook's ever-hungry maul; after all, what's the worst that could possibly happen?" Even though e-mail is horrible, this scheme has - somehow - managed to be even worse, a feat long assumed impossible)

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