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E-mail Is For Old People
Strolls writes "Although the article itself doesn't seem quite as exciting or newsworthy, this headline from Reuters amused me mightily. Reuters' summary is here and here's the original survey by Pew Internet and American Life Project." From the article: "Internet users from 12 to 17 years old say e-mail is best for talking to parents or institutions, but they are more likely to fire up IM when talking with each other, the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project found. E-mail is still used by 90 percent of online teens. But the survey found greater enthusiasm for instant messaging."
Please tell me how telephones are not electronic, I'm very interested to hear your answer.
-gjr
As echo boomers grow up, they'll have to learn that life is not just a series of headlines and highlight reels
I don't know when "grown up" is, but I think that people should be "grown up" in their late 20s. However, a majority of people less than 30 have not learned that life is not just a series of headlines and highlight reels. Nor do they seem to have ever experienced things like delayed gratification, nor have any insight beyond today. They are broke right before every payday, etc, etc.
The only advantage to all of this is that people that have the foresight to plan ahead and can wait for something are able to make a perpetual small profit off of those that need this instant gratification. I would almost consider this a business plan.
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Teenagers talk more crap. Full crap. Pretty much everything they say in a large group is intended to rise their position in the social structure and/or score. In their small circles (usually just two-three people) they talk more honest (but still very dishonest) idiotic crap. They're always dishonest. Their jokes suck. They can almost never make a decision on an issue that isn't as usual as picking teams for a game. Adults too talk crap when they talk, but they know that they can't piss away their lives by talking crap. And they've grown up, so they talk a little less crap. Oh, and did I mention teenagers talk crap?
Furthermore, children do talk about important things, just rarely when adults are within earshot.
Rare. We were all teenagers (and kids) once. Most of us still are or have recently went out of teenage. The conclusions we derive about teenagers (and sometimes kids) are not (entirely) based upon observations we make when we're adults, but based upon observations we made when we were teenagers ourselves. It's simple, kids are dumb, the older the people, the smarter they are, until a certain age. I suppose that age is 25 beyond which you can't get wiser or smarter. I don't know, I haven't reached that age myself yet. Anyway. Kids, until they are about 15, are dumb and they know they're dumb and listen to adults. After about 25 they're wise enough to do on their. It's the age in between, especially between 16-20, when they're still dumb but they *think* they're smart. (Especially the Americans) That's when they're the biggest egotistic assholes. I know I'll get modded down for this, I just defined pretty much the entire slashdot audience.