During some time the email seemed to be the most innovator way of communicating between the people. Programs like Microsoft Outlook seemed to be essential for any one that wanted enjoy the marvels of the electronic communication among people.

However, without we noticed, the emails passed to be substituted gradually by other communication forms. From Twitter to Facebook, from instantaneous message to SMS, new forms of interacting appeared and the reign of the email, that seemed to be absolute, collapsed.

Of course the email is an important tool of communication, however new forms – faster, less bureaucratic, more entertaining, more dynamics and with more resources – little by little assumed a new status nowadays.

If before we used the emails to know that some friend would do on one Friday night, now it is enough to read his status in some social network like Facebook or Twitter.

The new paper that the social networks carry out in the contemporary society was (and it is) changing: if at first it was just a triviality, now it is practically obligatory you to do part of some social network. If you don’t participate in any, you take the risk of being seen as an alien in our planet.

But it is still early to affirm that the emails are something of the past, in fact very early. New integrated services, like Google Wave maybe change the way – again – as we communicated. Or, thinking about the future, will it be that some other evolution or revolution in the wait quietly?

Via: Wall Street Journal.