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Offline Clive

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Social sites eclipse e-mail use
« on: March 09, 2009, 17:48 »
Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7932515.stm

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Re: Social sites eclipse e-mail use
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 18:28 »
Spam is less of a problem on such sites, I suppose.
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Re: Social sites eclipse e-mail use
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2009, 18:29 »
Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7932515.stm

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Re: Social sites eclipse e-mail use
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2009, 20:29 »
I've only ever joined one Facebook group, and that was to bring Gordon Astley back to BBC Southern Counties Radio.  Sadly, it didn't work.  :(
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