> I smile, that was me. I agree with your point: email use is getting > relegated to corporate settings, dealing with banks/utilities, some > services (newsletters).
It's worse than that: what is being relegated by most people is reading and writing "complex texts" (i.e. more than a few lines), and performing "complex tasks" as attaching a few images to an email or using a paper map; this is going backwards in the development of the Western human psyche, it's a very serious issue, but too much off topic for this list. Apart from that, the big difference between using whatsapp or email is that with email you get independence: I have my own email servers using my own domains that just a court can take away from me, use the OS and MTA of my choice that I can modify and compile from source, set up my spam filters, webmail and everything else just the way I want, and everything works the way I want. It's like being the owner of my own piece of land or just a poor peasant in somebody's else huge land.
