1. Email is morphing. As recent comScore data show the the use of web email is in decline pretty much across the board and particularly among teens. Email is still hugely popular and making the transition from web email to mobile email.

2. Email is integrating. As Edelman Digital’s David Armano discussed in his thoughtful post in Harvard Business Review blog, the real point is less about which media are dying and more about how they are becoming integrated into cross-platform solutions.

3. Email as a corporate information resource is less accessible to collaboration, analytics, archiving, and structured uses than social business platforms. That will create an incentive for companies to drive more use of social business tools and they will encourage employees to use these tools rather than store so much data in personal email files.

4. Teens in particular are “social natives” and will bring this reality to the workplace as they enter the labor force. Companies will need to adjust.

5. There actually are relatively few cases of true “media deaths.” Even telex was around until fairly recently.

Bottom line, do I really think “email is dead”? No. But I do think it’s lifestyle will change dramatically in the years ahead.