Once again, the know-it-all 'experts of the technology arena have categorically blown it as far as prognostication:  Email is not going away, and won't be even close to doing so until and ever if the love-children of teens' and leftover teens,' i.e. Facebook Messenger, and what's left of MySpace, manage to come up with a way to categorise and put in folders, the dried up fruit of such weak apps as their so-called messaging services.  To try to weed through the litter that currently constitutes their messenger history, or whatever they're calling it today, is like plowing through a Jurassic World dung pile.

In his article from 2007 titled “The Death of E-Mail,” Slate‘s Chad Lorenz wrote, “You could chalk up the decline of e-mail to kids following the newest tech fads. You’re not cool if you’re not on Facebook or MySpace, and everyone wants the latest tricked-out cell phone.”  Actually, Chad, for buying into the 'newest tech fads,' it is you who aren't 'cool,' BTW, a dated fad word if ever there was one; that began back in the beatnik era, long before even hippies.

The primary purpose of email is to send information, often excruciatingly detailed, for business, academic, and scientific purposes.  Even personal information that goes beyond the 'newspeak' (read 1984) 'r u aware of whut ur friends are posting about u on FB,' must be put in a format that can be saved and retrieved systematically.

Lastly, if one wishes to actually communicate at something above a 2nd-grade level, one must learn how to in fact write/key properly, at least in their own language, and that means using upper and lower case letters, punctuation, correct spelling, et alia (there's one you'll probably have to look up!).  So, Chad Lorenz and friendz, stop pretending that you're 14-yr-old geeks, all of whom are going to found companies like MS, FB, Amazon.com, &c, and get over yourselves!