Email's Face Gets Some Web 2.0-Style Plastic Surgery

In this world of Web 2.0, filled with social networking sites, RSS feeds and blogs galore, email’s role is a little blurry… which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Email and messaging in general is booming right now. Businesses and consumers alike both still embrace email as one of their sole means of communication. Emails, text messaging and IM are continually being lumped together. Take the Sidekick for example: the use of each messaging option is rolled into one device… the same goes for the Blackberry.

Myspace is more or less email on steroids. It’s more engaging than standard email because you can see pictures of the people, bands and comedians that you’re messaging.

Then there’s twitter, which consists of strangers and friends having global conversations with one another via messaging.

Even with flickr you can message your friends back and forth with new photos and such.

As far as I can tell, email hasn’t changed since its inception… it’s just changed faces. And who knows what the future holds for email and messaging. It's an exciting thought, isn't it?