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In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People
_martini_ writes "This short article suggests that, in Korea, email is used only for formal communications, or by older, less tech-saavy generations, while IMs, blogs, and SMS has taken over as the primary means of day to day messages."
In Korea, (current subject) is only used by old people!
Don't Tread on Me
How do they get their v4lub13 P3n!s 3n1arg3men+ notices?
Netcraft says old people are dying!!!!111
. . .what do they think of those who use the "physical" postal service...
What's that, Gramps?
KFG
you know you've left yourself wide open there...
Advanced users are users too!
You know, writing decent email is an art form, something we used to take pride in. But these days, with these kids texting ungrammatical half-phrases all over the place, it's becoming something of a lost art. I tell you, kids today can't write a complete sentence, and they barely even know how to use an emoticon properly. :-\ It won't be long before people forget how to type. Oh, the inhumanity!
Must... control... urge... to... fire... quick... yer mama joke...
you know you've left yourself wide open there...
Not unlike his mother...
It would probably be typed up, but it might look something like this
DEAR AOL KOREA USAR
IT HAS COMA 2 MAH ATENTION TAHT U HAEV MAED AN UNAUTHORIEZD USE OF MAH COPYRIGHTED WORK IN DA PR3PARATION OF A WORK D3RIEVD THEIR!N WTF LOL I HAEV RESERVAD AL RIGHTS IN TEH WORK FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2003 [AND HAEV REGIST3R3D COPYRIGHT THEIR!N OMG LOL UR WORK IS ASENTIALY IEDNTICAL 2 TEH WORK AND CLEARLY USAD DA WORK AS ITS BASIS.
AS U N3ITHER ASK3D FOR NOR R3CEIEVD P3RMISION 2 USE TEH WORK AS DA BASIS FOR UR WORK NOR 2 MAEK OR DISTRIBUTE COPEIS INCLUDNG ALECTRONIC COPEIS OF SME I BLEIVE U HAEV WILFULY INFRNGED MAH RIGHTS UND3R 17 USC!!!!11 OMG WTF LOL S3CTION 101 ET SEQ!1!!111! WTF AND CUD B LIABL3 FOR STATU2RY DMAEGS AS HIGH AS $15000 AS SAT FORTH IN S3CTION 504(C)(2) THEIR!N OMG WTF
I DAMAND TAHT U IM3DIAETLY CEAES DA US3 AND DISTRIBUTION OF AL INFRNGNG WORKS D3RIEVD FROM TEH WORK AND AL COPEIS INCLUDNG ELECTRONIC COPEIS OF SME TAHT U DELIEVR 2 ME IF APLICABLA AL UNUSED UNDISTRIBUTED COPEIS OF SM3 OR DESTROY SUCH COPEIS IMADIAETLY AND TAHT U DESIST FROM THIS OR ANY OTHAR INFRNGEMANT OF MAH RIGHTS IN DA FUTURA1!!1 OMG LOL IF I DO NOT RECEIEV AN AFIRMATIEV R3SPONS3 FROM U INDICATNG TAHT U HAEV FULY COMPLEID WIT THAS3 R3QUIERM3NTS I SHAL TAEK FURTHER ACTION AGANEST U!!!!1!!1 WTF
URS TRULY, SEBADUDE
It might be a bit of a challenge to decipher for most of us, but for these highly trained legal experts I'm sure it's nothing.
Eh.
If this link is even remotely accurate, I think I'd love Korea too. Where do I sign up for a citizenship? :P
Think about it for a minute.
Spam typically COMES from Korea. It would make sense then, that Koreans generally do not use email (which, in most Korean's minds is for SPAM only) as a communication means.
I was thinking that this is about South Korea, whereas North Korea's primary means of domestic communication are still starvation and threats of summary execution.
Yeah baby, I'm naked now. The chocolate suace is dripping down my...
Oh shit! Wrong tab!
Don't all Americans do the bulk of their communication through /.?
At least with the flood of engadget posts, the editors don't have time to devote unholy amounts of frontpage space to that roland guy. Too bad there's not an option to filter by submitter.
...they'd better send us this fad as well.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
ISPs, ACLs and IMs! You're free! Run!
Yarr!
Solution: Write "I'm just on my way out" and then go offline.
For my next trick I will solve the eternal "Jews, more trouble than their worth?" debate.
Too it's probably wise to mention that, in Korea, only old people are, umm, ahh, older than 25.
"Sanity is not statistical", George Orwell, "1984"
Well, have you tried using the goggles instead?
Mom, that better be Dad you're talking to!
This is not my sandwich.
Agreed. But don't discount the undead. Lawyers do everything by snail mail.
by interpolation, snail mail is for dead people.
Agreed. But don't discount the undead. Lawyers do everything by snail mail.
Finnally I know why my lawyer always stares at my forehead and mutters "brains" under his breath.