{"id":79,"date":"2007-11-19T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-11-19T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T20:31:26","slug":"long-live-old-people-and-their-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Long live Old people and their Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">Recently it has been reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/english.chosun.com\/w21data\/html\/news\/200411\/200411280034.html\" target=\"_blank\">Email is just a relic soon to be replaced by Facebook and other social networks.<\/a> Proponents of this viewpoint go on to argue that only older people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like over 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c use email.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">Good Lord, I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m about to defend email but here goes&#8230; As broken, SPAM infested, and exploitable email is, it&#8217;s still the foundation of communications on the internet.  Maybe I&#8217;m just one of these &#8220;old People&#8221; who just doesn&#8217;t get the social networking obsession, but as a 20 year IT vet who uses IM communications on a daily basis for work, I just don&#8217;t see it supplanting email; and don&#8217;t even get me starting about how ridiculous it is to think of MySpace as a professional communications platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently it has been reported that Email is just a relic soon to be replaced by Facebook and other social networks. Proponents of this viewpoint go on to argue that only older people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like over 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c use email. &nbsp; Good Lord, I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m about to defend email but here goes&#8230; As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-networking","category-tech-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}