Weekly Poll: Do You Use Email Less Than Before?

Email. It’s been with us as long as we’ve been online, dating back to the 1970′s ARPANET, way before most of us were online (or, cough, alive). It was one of the original reasons many people wanted to use the internet. Your email address is still considered, for many intents and purposes, your online ID. It’s critical enough to our online lives that it’d be hard to imagine someone using the internet without having a personal email address.

And yet, at the same time, email seems like the most hated online service, the one every tech startup is trying to kill. Gmail tried to kill it with Wave, Facebook’s tried to kill (or assimilate) it with Messages, and most collaboration tools online are designed to help you use email less for team collaboration. Oddly, though, most of these services still require an email address, and let you work with them through email if you’d like. Email, it seems, is firmly entrenched, and shows no signs of disappearing for good.

Have all the attempts to kill email helped you get less emails, or are you using email more than ever? Do you feel like your email inbox is still very important, or could you go days without checking it? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the poll and in the comments below!

pssst… Stay tuned for opinion pieces from our team about the future of email, coming soon!