Instant messaging is required for email. According to recent data provided by theMedia Research Association (AIMC), 72,5% of respondents used email in the last month, compared to 88,1% of instant messaging users.
The report shows how the use of e-mail is gradually declining in the face of new communication services and social media. The AIMC collects data on the Internet habits of Spaniards over the age of 16 every three months, and in this latest survey, relating to the first quarter of 2015, it records the percentage of use of theE. lowest since 1997.
Instant messaging is becoming the favorite medium of communication and is the service par excellence on the Internet, as stated in the latest report of the Information Society in Spain, SIE14, which indicates that its use has grown by 206% in the last two years up to 78% of the population with a mobile phone. It now virtually equals mobile calling (used by 82%) as a means of communication with family and friends.
These data make us wonder if we are witnessing the end of email. In addition to the emergence of new services in the field of communication, there is a growing trend in companies: limit the use ofE.. Precisely in the article Why are we abandoning email, recently published on a website specializing in technological innovations, analyzes the different factors that are leading to its disappearance and provides more data on its declining use.
