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Comment by b00ty4breakfast

7 days ago

yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism.

Get real, dawg

Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite.

Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades

https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/

  • Anyone who says "email is for old people" is a fool, at least on that subject.

    • Yes, because “bigstrat2003” said so. I work for a 1000+ consulting company and no one uses email for internal communications. Even for company wide messages leadership uses Slack.

      Heck even when we first start a project we either federate (or whatever you call it) the client’s Slack workgroup with ours or we ask to be on their Teams channel.

      Before working where I worked now, I worked for the 2nd largest employer in the US, even there most communication happened over Chime or Slack.

      On a personal level you actually email personal contacts - in 2026?

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  • You can get email on your smartphone.

    No, it's cool tho, worry about being "hip" and enjoy the authoritarian surveillance state that you are enabling because you've been indoctrinated to want "new thing" and to reject "old thing".