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I’m not sure when or how it happened, but I’ve moved from Outlook and Gmail for social emailing to Facebook.  The same is slowly happening with my networking emails and LinkedIn.  I’m writing less emails through my dedicated email programs and more and more through social networks and it’s not just me, because I’m getting more and more email this way and pressure has built for Facebook to upgrade their email interface.

Why the change? It could be the ease in accessing my address book through a social network.  It could be the knowledge that everyone is checking social networks regularly, sometimes more often than email.  It could just be segregating my life into the different social circles.  It’s probably all of these reasons and more.

What do you think of this change.  Is it happening to you?  Do you like it?  Is it easier or a bigger pain to manage multiple account? Let me know.

EDIT - Seems that social networking actually increases email usage.

“It actually appears that social media use makes people consume email more, not less, as we had originally assumed — particularly for the highest social media users… it’s perfectly logical that as people make connections though social media, they maintain those connections outside of the specific platform and may extend those connections to email, a phone conversation or even in-person meetings” says Jon Gibs, VP of media analytics at Nielsen.

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