The end of e-mail?

Sheryl Sandberg  chief operating officer of the world's biggest social network Facebook, says e-mail is a dying means of communication.

She bases that assertion on the behaviour of the nearly 500 million users who gather on Facebook. Speaking at the Neilsen Consumer  conference in Las Vegas, Ms Sandberg claims: "If you want to know what you'll be doing tomorrow, look at what teens are doing today."
Ms Sandberg, claims that only 11% of teens use e-mail, preferring text messaging and social networks. Even though 90% of e-mail may be spam or other useless twaddle, it is hard to believe it is nearing its sell-by date.
A report by the Radicati Group says that e-mail is still on the rise and projects that e-mail accounts will increase from 2.9 billion today to over 3.8 billion by 2014. At the same time, social networking is predicted to climb from over 2.1 billion accounts in 2010 to over 3.6 billion by 2014.
e-mails, in my opinion are still and will be for the future (10 years ahead), the main means of intra company and company to company communication. Texting is the teens way of communicating, but, commerce will always stick to the written word and not texting. I cant see the end of e-mail, just, as I cant see the end of letters (snail-mail).