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E-mail Is For Old People

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-my-day-we-had-pine-and-we-liked-it dept.

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."

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  1. IM is for privacy violation... by rmdyer · · Score: 1, Troll

    With IM, you give up your desires, needs, wants, ambitions, politics, loves, hates, hobbies, friends, and families to the corporate machine. All text is there to be consumed by a data mining engine created for the sole purpose of knowing about you. 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. Unless you are running your own messaging service, you won't be free from scrutiny. Of course the same is true for free email services too. Use anything free at your own risk. It is astounding how young people don't give a second thought about personal privacy issues. Just offer something for free, and it is taken like candy.

    Off soapbox.