On: Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year

[rudyfink]

I wouldn't worry that much. Phones were a company once too.

[terrellm → rudyfink]

Yes, but I can switch companies when I'm not happy with my current company or don't like their policies. Also, my AT&T phone can call my friend's Verizon phone.

[harshpotatoes → terrellm]

That wasn't always the case. There was a time before I was born where you either had a phone through Ma Bell or you didn't have a phone.

[mediaman → harshpotatoes]

Yes, but market forces did not solve that problem.

Should we not worry about Facebook because government will solve it?

[Joakal → terrellm]

What about their uptake of new technologies to return savings to customers? Both those providers don't want VOIP to become the norm.

[r00fus → rudyfink]

Until the US government spent 10 years pursuing action (back when corporations didn't completely control the govt).

10 years is a eon in internet time.