[ih] deterioration of email (was Re: clever usc creation)

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/29/2026 11:39 AM, Dan York via Internet-history wrote:
> But for many, perhaps most, people "email" now means whatever they now use to communicate with their friends.

Dan,

I don't think so.  First, they would not then also say that email is for 
old folk.  Also, other words get used for their default.

I was intrigued, in Europe, to have someone say they would text me and 
it turned out they meant Whatsapp.  (It was purely an accident that I 
had whatsapp running and got their message.)

As noted earlier on this thread, other folk refer to Direct Messages 
(DM) which means whatever less-public channel is provided by their 
social platform.

d/

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