It's no secret that there are other communication tools that started to take over some work areas. AIM used to be very popular in work spaces before it went away for good last year. We are starting to see Slack and similar tools, not only take its place, but become a better, more streamlined tool for the work place. As I explained in my other post about email going extinct, there are simply better forms of communication out there on the internet and the quicker your company gets on them, the more streamlined your line of communication will be for your entire team.

We are almost at the end of the 2010's and it's been a wild ride technology wise since the start of the decade. We've got tablets, smartphones and messaging systems in social media sites that are more effective than email ever would. The numbers show that more and more people use social media devices to find brand new products, and many of those social media sites will direct message those businesses on social media rather than finding them on a website and getting their email address. As I have explained in my post about emails going extinct, the way we communicate with our teams are drastically changing.