Does anyone use email to communicate with friends and family? To me it is almost as quaint as sending snail mail.
I like the pace of email better compared to instant-messaging where I usually feel like I have to apologise if im replying a few days later.
email is also better for having multiple topics. if you try to ask somebody about something off topic when using instant-messaging then it can easily get pushed out of view and forgotten about since it's all just a single thread
I wouldn't attempt write any sort of long form communication using IM and I wouldn't be cruel enough to make others read something like that
Not at all, indeed I do like email as a communication form. It was merely an observation that in practice using email for personal communication is exceedingly rare, at least in my social circles.
> I wouldn't attempt write any sort of long form communication using IM
From what I can tell, people have not migrated their long form communication to other platforms. Instead people seem to have abandoned long form altogether, as sad as that might be.