You may have heard some hullabaloo about Slack and how it’s going to put email out of business.
Don’t believe it. 🦄
“Why not?”
The short answer: Because you love internetting, and without email you would not be able to enjoy so much of it. And by so much, we mean, like, 99%.
Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, and PayPal: these are just a few of the internet-based services you simply can’t use without an email address.
(Heck, even Slack relies heavily on email — see https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201649273-Email-notifications.)
Whether you’re a college or university student (or a student of any kind, really), a parent who uses online banking to pay the bills, a person looking for a relationship on Plenty of Fish, or a business owner who’s doing their payroll online, you need an email address.
Slack? Unless you work for some kind of remotely distributed team, where would you use Slack?
Thanks for reading this far. Go ahead, check your email. 🙂
p.s.
We don’t want to suggest that Slack is not a great product or is not loved by its users. Because it is.
We also don’t want to suggest that email is perfect. Listen, we all have our issues with email. But most of those issues have to do with two things we like to call ‘volume’ and ‘content,’ not the channel itself.