Was just thinking about this the other day. Definitely has decreased as a result of greater SM consumption. - Kimberly J

My use of email is declining - and I certainly rely less on Google Alerts and other email feeds of information. I've moved virtually all of my project management work off of email now onto other platforms. http://tinyurl.com/64b3bv - David Sim

Unchanged - most people I deal with professionally still use email - so I have no option. - Craig Thomler

I use it a lot for business- it's about who you're talking to and how private it has to be and if you need attachments,etc- I network with industry peers via SM, but also some email- but my day to day biz and client interaction is still phone and email. So it's about who's using the comm channel and what functionality you need. I probably comm more overall tho, with SM, so the % of my comm that's email has probably decreased. - Brian Carter

My email has vastly increased, and mostly just a lot more spam. I do a lot of real business via email, as not everything works on Twitter, Facebook, and other socnets. I am not sure how much of the spam increase is directly related to my getting accounts on so many socnets, but it seems like to some degree, it is. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I think not only has email increased, so has the number of email accounts and other tools for inbound messages. At this point it continues to just push all limits of information overload. - Tony

Email is my method of last resort. Synchronous communication, twitter / FF, phone, chat, etc is first in my book. - Dean Terry

Decreased for communication with general people, work communication has stayed about same - Justin Yost

I hate email, but it's still a necessary evil. If you asked me whether my attention of email has declined, the answer is yes. It still keeps coming in though..if anything it's worse than ever. - Duncan Riley

SM hasn't killed my email. It has, though, killed my use of AIM/YIM/MSN/etc... - Ed Healy

Could Friendfeed or Twitter ever become mainstream alternatives to email? A lot of the email I get is targetted at groups. We certainly have a mission - should we choose to accept it - to educate our clients, businesses and friends on the potential benefits of social media over email. - David Sim

Technically it has increased, because of bacn. But in terms of actual use, it's probably decreased a little bit. - Rubin Sfadj

Actually, I use email MORE now than before this social media phenomenon. - ChaCha Fance from Alert Thingy

i use email more because all the social networks require it for authentication and the services send me email when there's activity on my account (a peeve.) it's a flaw to have to know someone's email to invite them to a service - rob zand

email is more equivalent to things like memos and faxes. SM is more like IM, but only for broad open conversations, maybe more of a replacement for group chat like IRC. as for my email consumption it has decreased, but it has been replaced by the phone and not SM, the growing trend in the market is to talk to others in the office not email, especially now that email is 'permanent' as is most of what is said in SM - nick carrasco

decreased for keeping in touch increased for everything else! - Darren Daz Cox

Declining for me and I love it. In fact, I'm in a bit of a spot now because all my friends use e-mail and I just can't stand reading email :) So now it's more of an intrusion than before. - Daniele Rossi