is email D E A D...

For the moment - No, it most certainly is not. Email is alive and kicking in every single one of us... so it would seem.

A survey taken in both the tute and within the griffith portal has come back with results that enforce the prominent role of email in each of our day to day lives. Though, it may stand to reason to argue that the results are quite biased in that the participants of the survey are tech savvy youths with an interest in media + technology, they can still be drawn upon to some extent.

On a likert scale of "How dead is email?" Not one respondent said that they don't use it.
67% remarked that it has it's place whilst 13% believe it to be God. In not having any religious ties myself, I would have to agree with the 13% and at last have found a worthy contender to regard as my own 'God'.... this leaves me wondering if I could also refer to my inbox as a church.

I have to say, if that were to be the case, i'm much more of a devotee religious fanatic than the other slackas who only attend their place of worship on any given Sunday!!

All metaphors aside, am I really right to assume that my 'God' will remain static. What if email were to die... (I feel like a traitor to even utter a thought of disbelief in the survival of the almighty power that be). Would I, an avid media consumer be willing to forgo my current God if it were to be replaced by a 'new media' being.

Well......yes of course I would be. I'm a Gen Y you fools. I will not only adapt, but embrace anything that new media wishes to throw at me.

For now email is a tool that I believe makes my life easier. Like my fellow 74.7% of survey monkeyers, I feel that technology eases and converges the sometimes loose seams that formulate my life. It brings together my work, home, education, banking, social, travel, shopping, research, transport and endless topical enquiries into one big fat church which i can, at my leisure, sort into neat little rows and pews complete with crosses and holier than thy water.

But! When an even bigger and better church is built next door with extra features for the average church goer, I will be more than willing to praise accordingly.

Oh and be on the look out for this neat little product - www.sabersurvey.com ......coming soon!!
(I'm told the analytical graphs are much prettier than that of it's rivals).