Friends lists here - friends lists there - everywhere you look friend lists are the talk of the town and much of the chatter going on these days seems to be within those lists. Whether it be Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, FriendFeed or any of the many look a likes that is where the conversations seem to be going on. For the better part though these are all public conversations where everyone in your various lists can see what you are saying.
Granted services like Twitter and Pownce have methods in place that support private conversations but for the better part everything is out in the open and equally available to the search engines of the world. I normally wouldn’t think much of this but I began noticing something over the last little while as I have gotten more involved with various aggregator services as well as being on Twitter and a member of the Elite Tech News reddit feed. My number of emails coming in from people that are my friends within those various services has gone up.
One would think that the opposite would be the case but in fact what I am finding is that email is becoming the preferred back channel to all these online services. Whether it be a quick group email note about something or continuations of things mentioned on FriendFeed or Twitter email seems to have become the preferred method of continuing those conversations.
Much has been made of the fact that many in the early adopter crowd have been suggesting that with the rise of these online service we could see email being regulated to something used only by old farts folks. What I am seeing though and this is from a wide cross section of age groups is that email could actually be being used more than we would think.
Sure being a cranky old fart may mean my circle of contacts may not be a large as the gregarious mavens that inhabit places like Facebook or Twitter but even in my small scale I wouldn’t start the “yer outta here” countdown just yet.
Conversation Tags: email, social networks, aggregators, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed
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