Is email the ultimate social environment?

Depends. Does it serve alcohol?

how about facebook taking over as the "ultimate social environment" to whatever it is right now? reason why i throw that out there is because it has many functions all in one: email, photos, IM, etc.

Maybe, second to the phone (less spam)

Email is horrible.

are they giving out invite codes?

i can twit you, chat you, email you, or send you my blogroll. it's all just formatted text meant to communicate. and albeit mail and chat being the stickiest apps online, to say that email is somehow better than facebook is a farce. there's no set standard mode of communication.

if someone makes an utility that can auto-scale your message though, that'll be nifty. so if i type less than 140 characters, i want it to show up on my twitter list. if i address it singularly i want it to be sent via email. if i type a long winded essay i expect it to be published somewhere somehow.