E-mail is Dead to Kids, Use Social Networks Instead
- July 19th, 2007
- 2 Comments
Kids don’t use e-mail to communicate with each other. Not socially, at least. See, kids today are all about the Facebook (so are we) and the MySpace when they need to send longish messages to each other. If they’re just sending short messages—”where u at, dawg?” and the like—they’ll TXT each other. IM, it sees, is also on the way out as far as kids are concerned. I feel so young!
So is e-mail dead? No, not yet. Now it’s mainly the realm of old people like John and Josh, spending their days reminiscing about Disco and pet rocks. Kids still use e-mail to talk business, but as a communincation tool amongst themselves, social networks and TXT messages are the bees knees now.
Did I mention we have a Facebook group? It’s really cool.
Mark (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I don’t think I’ve ever used email as a social communication tool (other than to family and business). It’s always been about the instant messaging for me. Though I do use ‘teh facebook’ and ‘teh myspace’…and I do send messages on them… But that’s usually for people I don’t talk to as often as I would on instant messenger. and I do txt too, but I’m usually drunk.
ProfessionalGun (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Gmail is too important to me to skip it and move to a closed system. Most important is the ability to search my messages and conversations, and also export contacts for use in any other program. I won’t be giving that up any time soon.