Everything eventually sorta becomes mail
I was catching up on mail this morning in Thunderbird. Then mailing lists, which I have filtered into their own separate folder structure. Then newsgroups. Then RSS, which I’ve included into Thunderbird again for convenience (more on that in a future post).
I went to a few social media sites websites I frequent and contribute to, and they all have little mail icons in their toolbars. You click them, and they open up an “inbox” with messages that are formatted… suspiciously like email.
I just think that’s interesting. We have all this technology, and have made all this progress, and so much of the mental model for interaction is still based around sending each other letters. 〒
