Email Will Get Extinct Within a Decade: TalkTalk
TalkTalk one of the leading fixed line broadband providers operating in the United Kingdom has claimed that email, the popular messaging platform would be forgotten by the broadband internet customers within a decade’s time.
The broadband service providing firm owned by the mobile phone giant of the United Kingdom, Carphone Warehouse, had come to this view after their carrying out a survey on the internet habits of the people, teaming up with a social anthropologist working at the University of Kent.
The broadband provider – social anthropologist team has claimed to have discovered through the research the existence of a couple of million people in the United Kingdom, in their early twenties that are tech-savvy, but did not wish to be rooted behind a desk. The research team has dubbed this group “first lifers”.
The research also revealed that about half of the first lifers group – that says about a number of around one million – no more used email. This according to the study was because they preferred the likes of Facebook and Twitter rather while on the internet, and messaging while on the move.
TalkTalk’s Mark Schimid commented on the development that people increasingly wanted to send short messages quickly as to reach many in one go, and there existed better ways for realizing that than through the stodgy email.
Schimid added that these trends that are more than apparent currently bode that email could be on its final phase by next decade’s end. TalkTalk is one of the providers of the cheapest business broadband packages in the United Kingdom.
