Is E-mail Dead? Well, good question. I don't think dead is quite the right term for it, but certainly it seems to be taking a bit of a back seat to things such as instant messaging. For example, I was on a website the other day and had a question I needed answered. In the past I would have had to send an email and wait for a reply, but behold, instant messaging meant I could ask my question and recieve an answer almost immediately. Then it occured to me how fantastic something like instant messaging was from a business point of view. You could speak with multiple people at once whereas in the old days (even older than email days) you would be put on hold for ages on the telephone waiting for an operator to answer your call (because your call is important to us... Ha!). Well okay, perhaps those days aren't so old, but you get my point. Communicating via something like IM enables you to speak with multiple people making the most of your time and that of your employer.... email, a great tool for sure, but in some arenas perhaps a little obsolete.... I say in some arenas because email for the purposes of marketing to large numbers of people is certainly a very attractive proposition for businesses and people in general who wish to disemminate a message to multiple or many people at once in multiple places and/or countries. Back to the question, is email dead? No, I don't think so.