About a decade ago, a lot of the \u201cexperts\u201d were telling us that e-mail was \u201cdead\u201d, to be replaced by fun shiny objects like social media and messaging apps.
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\nWhy didn\u2019t that happen? In a 2013 interview with Forbes, MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut nails it:
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\n (Email\u2019s) gotten stronger, in my opinion. I remember when my friends and I would email each other messages like, \u201cHey man, what do you want to do for lunch?\u201d Then we\u2019d go back and forth \u201cI dunno, Chinese?\u201d On and on. Instant Messenger cleaned that out of my inbox. I remember when people used to email me stupid motivational quotes or urban legends. Facebook took that out of my inbox. Friends used to email me pictures of their kids. Instagram cleaned that out of my inbox. At work, project updates would clutter my inbox, but that can get posted to intranets and Yammers, and so on. All those email killers are more like email cleaners. I\u2019m not belittling them. It\u2019s a noble cause. We want our inboxes clean, and we only want to hear from people or topics we truly care about.
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\nBingo.<\/p>\n
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