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Originally Posted by Shap
I was just reading fast company magazine and these stats stood out
Difference in people using email from 2009 to 2010
Seniors up 28%
teens down 59%
89% of all email sent is spam
Facebook users in 2004 1mil
In 2010 600 million
Aol users in 2004 23 million
In 2010 4 million
Whatever is hot today can quickly be replaced especially if the functionalty of it is replaced with something less annoying or more user friendly. I would guess most teens are communicating over social networks because there is far less hassle. No spam, no junk, no remembering an email addy. Yesterday when the sale was announced more than twice as many contacted me by fb msg over email.
There is always opportunity and now more than ever you can get a project to 1 million users faster than ever and you can drop back to zero faster than ever. You have to stay sharp.
It will be interesting to see if tubes evolve or if they stay stagnant the way paysites did.
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Im guessing most teens are replacing email with text messaging now that most plans have unlimited texting so no extra costs and the attention span of kids is short, faster to text your friend with a short message then send them an email. And every single kid 13 or older has a phone now.
What is next is the million dollar question, however I see tube sites reigning for several years. Even 15 years ago a video was cool shit but the technology (and cost) to stream it wasn't practical, but we knew it was there and just a matter of time. Now you get full length HD videos for free. What is the next step up from that? 3D, a hologram of some type? Seems what ever is "next" is still many years away. Sees like what is next is so far away we don't even know what "it" is yet.