The headlines were unequivocal - Facebook founder [Mark Zuckerberg] had announced that email is dead.
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The truth however was a little more prosaic. At the launch of the social network's new messaging platform, he had said "we don't think a modern messaging system is going to be email", and that the new system was "not email".