Social media rivals email, new study suggests

According to a new Neilsen study, social media (and close runner-up, online gaming) suck up the majority of the average American’s time. In fact, the research suggests that people are spending forty-three percent more time on social networks than they did at this time last year. That's quite the leap to sites like Facebook and Twitter. What’s more is that the numbers show a fifteen percent decline in email and instant messaging. Could social media really evetually give email the axe?

Full fascinating story at Media Post.