how about facebook taking over as the "ultimate social environment" to whatever it is right now?
reason why i throw that out there is because it has many functions all in one: email, photos, IM, etc.
Agreed. SPAM, phisihing scams, 419 etc is the Achilles heel of email. I often watch/ask how my 12 and 9 year old cousins use Internet... neither of them use or like email. They all use either IM or msg through sites.
Email will never go away but its use will be reduced as the new generation grows up.
i can twit you, chat you, email you, or send you my blogroll. it's all just formatted text meant to communicate. and albeit mail and chat being the stickiest apps online, to say that email is somehow better than facebook is a farce. there's no set standard mode of communication.
if someone makes an utility that can auto-scale your message though, that'll be nifty. so if i type less than 140 characters, i want it to show up on my twitter list. if i address it singularly i want it to be sent via email. if i type a long winded essay i expect it to be published somewhere somehow.
