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London, Dec 25 (ANI): Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg raised many eyebrows when he declared the death of emails last month. But it seems the young entrepreneur was right.

Statistics from market researchers comScore have revealed that millions of Britons led by the under-25s are ditching the cumbersome tool for social networking sites.

The three most popular services in the UK-Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Hotmail-have seen a consistent fall in the number of people visiting their sites.

Email providers have lost around 1.2million users since numbers peaked in October 2009, although this only covers personal accounts, according to the figures obtained by The Times.

John Dvorak, columnist for PC Magazine, said email has become useless to many.

“There is no real way of confirming receipt of an email other than the annoying receipt request,’ the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

“People also change their email addresses far too often and few have a permanent email address where people can always contact them.

“Plus a lot of people end up with poorly administered email systems that results in boxes filled with so much spam the user abandons the entire address,” he said.

Zuckerberg highlighted this electronic revolution in November when he hailed the death of email and said it would go the way of the letter because it was too slow and too formal.

In its place the 26-year-old showcased Facebook’s own version, which integrates all web and text-based communications. (ANI)