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- Detry, on 07/15/2008, -8/+199No
- SteelChicken, on 07/15/2008, -7/+104teens are fickle and the rest of us dont really care what they do
- michaelpinto, on 07/15/2008, -6/+64Spam is killing email — as new adopters to the medium they correctly see it as flawed and seek alternatives. If you want proof of this look at the lack of appeal that Blackberry has to the youth market.
- compu73rg33k, on 07/16/2008, -2/+36Gmail does a good job at filtering out spam, I've found. I hardly ever get any spam tbh.
- RyeBrye, on 07/16/2008, -2/+33If you get a lot of false-positives in your spam box, you should politely ask your friends to stop telling you how to enlarge your penis.
- mattwalton56, on 07/15/2008, -12/+33I'm a teen. I use email very often. This is BS.
igoogle = win - xstarsprinklesx, on 07/16/2008, -0/+21Also, I don't think people whose parents pay for their technology (i.e. texting vs. free email) are really the best judges of this sort of thing.
Plus, they're in school, of course they're going to use what they have with them. They can't be emailing back and forth in chemistry class. It's probably more convenience than anything. - mieprowan, on 07/15/2008, -0/+14I get the impression that the huge upsurge in contacts many people experience when they get heavily involved with Internet communications, is responsible for many feeling overwhelmed and moving more towards platforms where they can communicate with many via one communique. I've also noted emailers tend to fall into two categories: 1) fast typists who email informally, like conversation, and b) slow typists who edit their emails as if they expect them all to be published posthumously. Correspondence continues to be redefined.
- ilgaz, on 07/16/2008, -0/+13Let them get a job and see how they can live without e-mail. e-mail will be always around since it is not realtime (unless you want it), offline capable and it is recorded. When signed by the standards process which the country suggests/dictates, it is actual legal document which is exactly same as ordinary ink signed document.
Also IM networks? There are 3 major undocumented protocols in hand which all runs in central , single point of failure systems. There is a treasure like XMPP/Jabber and it is just recently taking off (thanks to Google). Companies run/install their own Jabber servers for internal/secure communications or they get tricked by MS and get "Live server" or something.
Social networks? Will we trust to Facebook for private/commercial communication? - Klisk, on 07/16/2008, -3/+15Teens? Heh.
I'm 23. NONE... NONE of my friends use or have email. None of my real life friends, at least. They hate it, refuse to use it, and are stubborn about it.
The few that DO have gmail accounts never ever check them, and if you call them a few days later and inquire about an email you sent, they will admit that they only check their email once a month and haven't seen it yet.. Then, of course, lecture you on how they don't have the time to check email and that you should of described it in a text message instead (even if it was visual.)
Sad. I love my email.
With adults striving so hard to make children successful worker bees, they have also developed a generation of urgency. No one takes their time. Everyone is in a rush. Everyone is in an illussion that they don't have "enough time." No one dreams, or relaxes, or creates -- They simply work. It's quite blatantly shocking to me that nowadays being rebellious isn't cool anymore, matter of fact it's the least cool thing you could do. Conformity is trendy. Youth has become disgustingly... Generic. Corporate.
I'm off track here now, but is it surprising that the art of email is dying with younger people when they think that writing an email is a waste of time? They "have a life"! - compu73rg33k, on 07/16/2008, -1/+13That was the same conclusion I reached a couple weeks ago when I pondered this question. I'm now 18 and am using e-mail more than ever. I used to never e-mail when I was in my younger teen years. But when you get older, get a job, actually get e-mail from your school (university), you end up using e-mail a lot more. Plus adults don't really use sites like facebook & myspace, at least not to the extent of addiction like many younger teens do.
- DiggRage, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12your friends are retards... Text messages have their place, phone calls have their place, and emails have their place. If emails are not part of their high tech repertoires, then they are high tech idiots. All forms of electronic communication have their time and place, and email is actually one of them. Find some more intelligent people to be friends with. Omg LoL
- alliekins619, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11Holy crap, have you seen the average Twitter account? About a third of my "followers" are actually friends. The rest are link-spamming bots.
- jakatak, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12just wait. Spam finds it's way everywhere. Twitter will be next, then friendfeed, then etc.
There will always be bad people that ruin good things. It's a fact of life. - falconer, on 07/16/2008, -1/+11It might not be the "cool" thing you use to talk to your friends, but e-mail is and will remain the standard for professional communication.
- Visual77, on 07/16/2008, -3/+13I barely use email, but I'm also notoriously hard to get a hold of in general, hate being on the phone and dislike social networking sites (although I have both a MySpace and Facebook profile)
Instant messengers is my preferred form of communication. Either I'm online and willing to talk or want to be left alone to read or play a game or sleep or cook. - linagee, on 07/16/2008, -2/+12Texting = $$$ in cell providers pockets. Is there some reason you would pay so much for around 100 bytes of data when it isn't even usually reliable or quickly delivered?
- KingGorilla, on 07/16/2008, -1/+9It's because NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!!!
- huff51, on 07/16/2008, -6/+14the lack of appeal of the blackberry is that it not full touchscreen, or apple OMG!
- tulanian12, on 07/16/2008, -1/+9Teens are generally more casual than those in their 20's and above so they use social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook along with text messaging for communication. Professional people use email for its extended functionality and email also becomes more common in the workplace when everyone has an email address that they are forced to check often.
- Aliwalla, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Dave: "Oh hi Bob, could you twitter me over that 300 page legal brief ASAP?"
Bob: "160 letters at a time?"
Dave: "Yeah, of course! Wish we could have just emailed it like old days, but ya know those teenagers!" - Stavrosian, on 07/16/2008, -2/+10I get absolutely no spam in either of my main email accounts (work and personal).
Stop living in the 90's. - xstarsprinklesx, on 07/16/2008, -10/+17It would be kinda funny if email went out just as McCain was finally catching onto it.
- nonymous666, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7No, from YOUR mother's bed.
- dafunkmonster, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6or masturbate.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6I get 0 spam at work, maybe 2 ot 3 a week via gmail.
- nicolasavru, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7Socialize with peers? I do that all the time with torrents.
- bonjourmr, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5What a stupid suggestion.
- gfxlonghorn, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5The very fact that you use anything "=win," this article immediately disassociates you from the teenage population they are looking at. Of course nerdy teens will use email, they are talking about the masses.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -5/+10The kids want the ***** version of myspace and it's clogged with lame junk. "Check my 1,000 friends that I don't even know." blah.
- Rapter09, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5IMs are conversations, emails are for delayed conversations. You need to communicate something to somebody who's not around, so you send them an email; you don't send them an email when they're online because that would be pointless. I'm sure somebody heralded the death of the written letter when email came around. I think it will always be relevant. I, however, still can't fathom text messaging. I'm 21. Never did it. Probably will never do it. I'll just be sitting on my rocking chair, surrounded by my emails yelling at kids to get off my damn lawn.
- dafunkmonster, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5The title of the article should have an asterisk denoting the following:
*teens who do not use terminology such as "igoogle = win", and therefore leave the confines of their bedroom/comproom at least once a week in an endeavor to socialize with peers. - Eric3k, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5I type slow and correct to the best of my ability as a show of respect. It doesn't seem to catch on because I mainly receive the opposite.
- chikuten, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4gmail does a good job. i get like 500 spams a day, but only one or two make it to my inbox.
- atliberty2say, on 07/16/2008, -2/+6'And what pray tell' - has to rank right up there with 'And you sir' as best Digg language indicators for a basement mom dwelling troglodyte.
- linagee, on 07/16/2008, -2/+6If there was more spam on texting less people would use it. I think that would solve our e-mail woes.
- MutatedNantuko, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Then they aren't friends anymore, aren't they?
- Aitese, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Is Facebook killing email? Is the iPhone killing radio? Will Bluray kill cinema? Is the Kindle killing books? Will Youtube kill TV? Will Wordpress kill the newspaper?
The astounding arrogance of people in the tech community shows no signs of declining any time soon. At least this article has more merit than the link bait that was "Is the iPhone killing terrestrial radio" which only marginally had anything to do with the iPhone as admitted by the author in the article itself...the balls on that guy! - brycehebert, on 05/03/2009, -0/+4How about this, only give your email to people you want sending you email!!
When you sign up at sites give them another email account that they can send all the spam they want.
Is this really a problem? I have four email accounts, two of them are Yahoo accounts and they're used exclusively for sites that will very likely send me spam.
Then i have a hotmail account for things like Digg that I won't mind reading, but I don't want it in my main email account.
And finally, I have my Gmail account, which is used for friends and family and stuff I will actually care about.
Oh, and I'm 17, so ***** this article. - dafunkmonster, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I text, shout to, and instant message my friends.
I email my clients and employees. This allows me to keep track of all business-related communication.
Therein lies the difference. - Durthalion, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3some much memory!!! so lil time!
- waydee, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3No. Maybe for casual correspondence, sure but I'd argue that outside of the workplace that's been dead for years now.
For professional/serious stuff? not a chance. You can't visit a potential employers facebook page and leave them a wall post can you, you can't arrange a meeting with a client on myspace, you can't even arrange the sale of a laptop (for example) without using email - well I can't anyway. It has an aire of professionalism about it that no other method of corresponding on the internet can match.
And with GMail, theres no spam anymore. - ThetaDot, on 07/16/2008, -3/+6O RLY? And what pray tell do you call a text message which doesn't immediately get a reply?
- badbadmike, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Since when are teen tastes dictating anything in tech besides video games?
- Dested, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Its all a matter of not being a teen anymore. I talk to my friends on aim, and my business associates on email, never really visa versa. Email isnt going anywhere.
- Twee, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Wow, sounds like your HTC device was poorly made. The Nintendo DS seems to stand up to tons of abuse and it's much cheaper.
- brettmurf, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Not to mention you don't want your personal life attached to all of your work messages. E-mail is never going away, and once these get e-mail on their cell phones, I doubt they will feel the same.
- Dozernotz, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Obviously your friends and the teens in the article aren't using email because they can get away with it. But just try speccing a product or outlining a book using using twitter.
The article is basically saying nothing more than "teenagers aren't required to deal with memos." Apparently your 20 something friends aren't either. News at 11. - jcl777, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Man, this guy is even worse than teenagers who look around to their peers to see whats "cool" or not. Uh-oh, those high school kids aren't using e-mail, and they seem pretty on the ball. E-mail is dying!
- nonymous666, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3A "text message".
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