On: Email will last forever

[AndrewDucker]

The reason email will last forever is that nobody owns it.

If Twitter goes bust then you lose all of your tweets. If Facebook goes bust then all of your status updates go out of the window.

But email is an open, free protocol that anyone can implement and is deliberately designed to be decentralised.

And so the ecosystem will last as long as a few people find it useful.

[ldng → AndrewDucker]

Exactly. Email is so resilient because it's an open decentralized protocol. Every other alternatives I've seen is closed and/or centralized in a way or another. No wonder they fail.

[kissgyorgy → AndrewDucker]

Facebook is more likely to stay than email IMO.