Web apps like Facebook could kill e-mail?

The new generation of internet users is growing up and making its effect on the functionality of the web.

According to this article on CNET, a bunch of Web App gurus met in Florida and decided that e-mail is now the inferior form of internet-based communication.

I agree.

My homepage has been Facebook for almost 3 years (and I would estimate 95% of college students would say the same), I check my Facebook increasingly more and more -- not because I am a nerd (well, partly) but because that is how I get information from my classmates. Many of my professors have recently proclaimed that they have created Facebook profiles (which is really suprizing since several still cannot find the "View Slide Show" option on Powerpoint 2003. I also find myself checking YouTube and Blogger more often than I even log into my Hotmail account. My university e-mail address is peppered daily with notification emails from - you guessed it - Facebook.

My generation has not only ditched e-mail as a primary form of web-communication, but is also creating digital content and blogs to express the need for what I like to call Web App Reform. Facebook is not perfect, but it is infinitely more interactive and potentially useful than e-mail.

The future is here, and it doesn't require the "@" button on the keyboard.

Thanks for reading.