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Ok, so Wave is either the ultimate replacement for email or just a new tool to use for communication; not that different from instant messaging, Skype or Facebook.

Truth is it depends on what you use your email for. If you like writing emails now, you will no doubt continue on using email. On the other hand if you’re using email to work with several people at the same time, thank God for Google Wave. This new generation of email protocols will cut the back and forth and multi-copy-hell that you might be currently facing especially if you message more than one person at a time. Hun?
What I’m saying, is that if you just email back and forth with one person, email works, for the most part, but even then, how many emails fly back and forth? Did you catch them all? Did you remember that one about the important deadline? Well, fret no more, as Google Wave is about to change the email messaging paradigm.

With Wave, emails are transformed into living conversations that are updated. Ok, now is the time to stop thinking ‘email’. Email is no more. Google Wave is a targeted bulletin board. You put your message up and you either get a reply or someone can add to your message or they can even delete it. If you’re thinking this is chaos, you’re absolutely right! It’s chaos, it’s mayhem, it’s better than what’s in your email inbox right now.
There’s really no sense guesstimating how Wave will impact our lives. It simply will and I wish I already had it.
Whether or not Wave is for you depends on what you’re currently using your email for. Ok, I’m repeating myself  or did I? Who can keep track of these long threads? Just get to the point! With Google Wave the point is the content that is created by the participants. Have a thought to express? Put it down in a Wave and see if it grows into a full fledged argument or a collaborative experience that is both weird and wonderful.

Um, email will never die.

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