Re: Old directions in social media.

[Michael Thomas <[e-mail]>]

On 1/6/21 9:56 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>
> But the younger generations are writing reports and documents only using
> online collaborative editing, don't use email at all, and find they're
> very productive under github issue trackers and slack etc.  I mentor a
> fairly large high school software team.  They use no email (sticking to
> slack and github) and have zero desire to start.  Because it's a skill
> they don't have, they don't feel they need and thus its a skill they
> actively don't want.  I've given them many mini-lectures that when they
> get to a work place they'll likely be forced to use email.  But, even
> many work environments are holding a multitude of their discussions over
> some channel-based discussion platform instead.
>
I get the impression the reason that the younguns don't use email is the 
same reason they don't use facebook: it's uncool and for old people. The 
one thing email cajoles is some amount of contemplation since it's not 
really interactive, per se. Usenet style threading is sorely missed though.

Mike