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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."
In America, only old people use e-mail.
--Mike Boos
Here come the Korea jokes.
...or all over?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Did you hear that 18 year olds? You're old people now. Grab a prune-juice and check your email.
Starsucks
E-mail Is For Old People
So those VIAGRA spammers knew about this long before this research.
Thanks, here's another bomb: talking enthusiastically preferred to writing letters for conversation among peers located within 10 feet of each other.
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Raise your hand if you remember when the command for Instant Messaging was 'write'.
Agreed. Just look at how popular IRC was when we were in our late teens and early 20s.
Gorkman
(interesting side note is that emailer is old enough to be in the dictionary, but IMer is not. One is truly old when one's verbifications are standard.)
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Apples are better than oranges.
Story at 11.
Tel... tele... teleph.... no, sorry, doesn't ring a bell.
OH! WAIT! That's what we used to get online to use IMs before cable, that's it.
...and that's all there is to it.
"it generally just feels childish and unprofessional"
I think you nailed why young people like it.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
I just imagined /. in real time (an open chat room):
/. it's always like: argh, we are the pirates, MS is the biatch! Leenux all the way!
-FriSt Pst, b147ch35!
(with heavy Russian accent): -Hot grits. Get your hot grits here.
-Oh, yes, Nataly Portman always reminds me of a good big bowl of nice steaming hot gritz.
-GOOGLE ROKZ. THIER ARE THE CLOOOEST! I AM A ROKCET SCENTEIST >LWE>F PFQ!FP !
-In soviet Russia, Rocket Scientists Google YOU.
-Oh, man, I remember this one time, in the band camp....
-Yes, Microsoft is the evil empire. They are releasing this new service, a total Google rip off too...
-Microsoft is just trying to play nice, and here on
-It's Mr. GNU/Linux to you, a55h47.
-Give man a fish and he ows you a fish. Hit him on the head with a fish and he just swims there in the fishery. For the dead fish.
-4ll y0ur b453 4r3...
-You, dumb ass, this 'all your base' crap is like 10 years old. Get with the program!
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Yup. I can see why teenagers like the IM more than email. You have to think before sending an email (well, at least a little more) because you don't have the easy way to instantly correct what you just said.
You can't handle the truth.
Communication users from 12 to 17 years old say postal mail is best for talking to parents or institutions, but they are more likely to dial up a phone when talking with each other, the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project found. Postal mail is still used by 90 percent of teens. But the survey found greater enthusiasm for phone calling.
I knew it. Kids these days just wont take the time to type up an email. IM is just not as personal as actually having a letter in your InBox. It's just not the same. IM is going to be the downfall of sociaty.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
If I ever wrote malware, it would strip the "reply all" button off of outlook. I love "reply all" the best for listserves though. Nothing like getting a bunch of "How do I subscribe to this list" messages in my inbox.
Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy IM thingees. We had smoke signals. In some bad winters, we ran out of dry wood to burn, so we burned dirt! There's nothing like sending a "I pwned you!" dirt smoke signal to somebody who's fire I just rooted.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I keep in touch with everyone I know through Anonymous Coward postings on Slashdot.
Tel... tele... teleph.... no, sorry, doesn't ring a bell.
Mine does.
Beware of using IM at a company. Beware of using IM if you work for the government, or state. Beware of using IM at home.
Phew. Well, I guess that just leaves my private network of Apple IIe computers in my RV in the middle of the Nevada desert.
yeah important conversations like about boobies.
Man I miss those conversations... now all we talk about at work is this boring crap like Sarbanes Oxley, Profits from last quarter, cutting operation costs, etc...
nothing exciting like a great boobies discussion...
SIGH.... the costs of being an adult are high.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
That's the best sig I've seen in a long while.
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That's the lamest sig I've seen in a long while.
Today is the day I realized I was getting old.