Tt August 9 2014

"kids were interviewed saying that email is antiquated"

Same thing was said 10 years ago, but those teenagers then are now probably using Gmail today.

If email was past its time, Google would not be improving Gmail today.

Many other new and improved email services exist today that have been designed to function well on phones. I like fastmail.fm.

Email is used for alerts and notifications, and in recent years, more websites are providing daily, weekly, or monthly email newsletters or digests.

http://nytimes.com/2014/06/30/business/media/for-email-a-death-greatly-exaggerated.html

I think http://mailchimp.com and other similar services are doing well.

Geeks are trying to reimagine email. They probably thought email was dead 10 years ago.

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dark-mail-hides-metadata-from-nsa/

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/mit-and-dropbox-alums-launch-inbox-a-next-generation-email-platform/

I recently redesigned one of my web publishing tools where a user never has to create nor remember a password to login. To login, only an email address is entered, and a link is sent that when clicked, the user will get logged in. Since I'm logged into an email account all the time anyway, having a login link emailed is no big deal.

Internally, many companies probably still rely on email too much for functions like knowledge management and collaboration when other services exist that are better than email, but I don't see email disappearing soon.

Email is an easy to use and implement private social network. SMTP = simple mail transfer protocol.

BTW, kids change their minds often.

Six months or so ago, people began predicting the death of Facebook because it was no longer cool among the kids, and kids had moved on to things like Snapchat.