A number of people claim that
the rise of social networks is expected to kill email, the most popular
form of communication across the world, and spamming
too.
The meteoric rise in the popularity of social networks has led
many people,
experts included, to believe that emails, the most popular mode of
communication
around the world, are dead. This, however, couldn’t be further from the
truth
because social networks are good places to meet new people or those you
haven’t
met in years. For regular correspondence, however, there’s no better
tool than
email.
Apart from this, a quick glimpse of your inbox will reveal
dozens of emails
from marketers, friends and what have you lying there waiting to be
opened.
And what of spamming? If emails are dead, spamming should be dead as
well.
Not true, yet again.
The amount of spam that one has to deal with, on a daily
basis, is not much
because of active
spam filters. Were they not as efficient, 90% of the emails
in your inbox would be spam.
Even if you look at the problem of spamming from a legal
perspective, the
present laws will take some time to really effectively deal with the
menace.
What’s more, spammers have also started targeting popular social
networks.
This means, every piece of information you provide to these networks is
not
that secure.
How can you deal with issues like these? Well, there’s no
single solution
to these problems. For one, you, the user, have to be careful about the
information
you share on such networks.
When it comes to emails, you should change your account
passwords on a regular
basis. Do not respond to commercial emails you haven’t subscribed to,
and most
of all, never respond to mails that ask you to share sensitive
information
like your financial details (credit card numbers or bank account
numbers).
These techniques may not be completely foolproof, but they are
tried, tested
and proven methods to keep the menace of spamming at bay.
Source: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091113_email_not_dead_neither_is_spam/
