so die Analyse von Hitwise:
For the fist time last month, UK Internet visits to social networks overtook visits to web-based email services. As the chart below illustrates, our custom category of the top 25 social networks, which includes Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, accounted for 5.17% of all UK Internet visits, compared to 4.98% for Computers and Internet – Email Services, which includes Hotmail; Yahoo! Mail and Gmail, amongst others… This confirms that social networks are starting to eat into the web-based email providers’ dominance of the internet messaging market. A growing proportion of the UK online population is choosing to communicate with friends via social networks rather than email
Man muss abwarten, ob sich SNs auch in D ähnlich entwickeln werden, doch die Universalität von SNs hinsichtlich Userexperience scheint Mailing zumindest bei den Angelsachsen in nichts nachzustehen, warum also nicht in good old Germany auch?
