Every year new startups are built, which promise to eradicate email and give us the holy grail of communication. I remember someone saying slack is going to finish email for good.
Well guess what, email is here, and it’s here to stay for at least a couple more years. I think it has three big advantages over other forms of communication.
pull is sometimes better than push. — we are so used nowadays to push from apps and browser notifications and whatsapp that we sometimes forget how handy it is to read things on your own time and focus.
It’s ubiquitous — any smart phone has an email client. Easy and fast to write and consume emails on the go and anywhere.
It’s a focal point for all your logins — you can secure your email account with Multi Factor Authentication (MTA) and protect your logins and passwords.
Because email is here and is so important, you need to take good care of your main email account and use
temp mail
services like nada when registering to less important or trail accounts. Any exposure of your email account increases the risk for it to be compromised.