At Triond, you don't have to ask your friends for their email addresses. You can just send a message right to your friends on Triond's website. Will this be the future of email? Here in 2008, I still need Outlook Express to be able to communicate with others outside of Triond. With sites like Triond, I think email might eventually die some time in the future, but not right away. Some people are going to need email for a while for their businesses. People send email newsletters to drive traffic to their sites and there may be other reasons.
To me, Triond is a perfect place to find traffic. With all of the people that you make friends with at Triond, you can keep them up-to-date about your links, articles, and sites by sending them messages. That's what the whole internet is mostly all about, sharing, marketing, and communicating. When you write articles at Triond, you can share your articles with your friends. Your friends articles are automatically there under a news feed tab, and the messages you send are saved until you delete them. It seems as if you don't have to go any where else to get visits to your articles. Triond is a great community of communication.
Triond has made it very easy to communicate. You don't have to worry about an email address because all you need is a name. You don't have to worry about how to find a name or a friend. Triond has a friend search. When you find them, you can just add their name on to your friends list. To me, it's better than email. Triond has a great email system of their own. When you are on their site, you are in the future of email.