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Kids Say Email is Dead
An anonymous reader writes "'E-mail is, like, soooo dead' is the headline at News.com, where a piece looks at youth attitudes towards communication mediums. A group of teenage internet business entrepreneurs confessed that they really only use email to 'talk to adults'. Primarily, these folks are using social networks to communicate. 'More and more, social networks are playing a bigger role on the cell phone. In the last six to nine months, teens in the United States have taken to text messaging in numbers that rival usage in Europe and Asia. According to market research firm JupiterResearch, 80 percent of teens with cell phones regularly use text messaging. Catherine Cook, the 17-year-old founder and president of MyYearbook.com, was the lone teen entrepreneur who said she still uses e-mail regularly to keep up with camp friends or business relationships. Still, that usage pales in comparison to her habit of text messaging. She said she sends a thousand text messages a month.'"
Holy crap! You haven't been around very many middle management types with their crackberries, have you?
Now get the hell off my lawn.
...is soon I'll be using myspace to update my boss on my TPS reports?
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Yeah, that's sure to cut you a better than fair sampling of the "youth culture."
And in a related story, a survey of classically-trained teenaged cellists has determined that young people are listening to less hip-hop and have begun to prefer champagne to beer.
Now, how do I text-message "GET OFF OF MY LAWN" ? Anybody...?
... Long live email.
P.S. I wish face-to-face speech would die. I hate my coworkers.
So he'll have a terrible article to repost tomorrow.
The Farewell Tour II
...only old people use email. Looks like the US has caught up with Korea. I thought the "in Korea..." thing made a good internet meme. It didn't really catch on that well though.
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Data error on transmission: "I stopped using it"
Most of the stuff on
I can't give you an educated response because I'm texting my BFF Jill.
Sure baby, I'll give you my phone number...in Hex
"I was writing an email on the PC, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep-- and then, like, half of my email was gone. And I was, like- It devoured my email. It was a really good email. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."
I already shudder at any group in my company hiring anyone under 25, and I'm under 25! I can't imagine relying on teenagers as a labor source (grocery stores, restaurants, etc). Even the interns we get from a very well-to-do private school are, in terms of professionalism, socially retarded. I've had to filter and lock down their e-mail and other communications from them to our clients because their messages are full of misspellings, wrong words, "u" instead of "you", and bad structure altogether. How do you misspell "their" with Outlook? I have to TRY to misspell it and even then it isn't easy.
Well actually they're talking about you.
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
Teenagers shallow and faddish. Details at 11.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Relax. I'm sure their enhanced 'esteem' will more than make up for their lack of spelling and grammar knowledge.
or, more precisely :
In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People
He said 'intelligent communications' and you responded about 'middle management types.'
Please parse for errors.
Kids can't/won't string together solid thoughts
It's true!
Building on your great joke:
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Now if you kids will excuse grandpa, this ol' fart has got to check his email...
Dark Reflection
I'm surprised no one has pointed out the fact that the same thing happed 3 years ago: In South Korea, email is for old people
Bzzzt, wrong.
I get "I'm cute, please come fuck me tonight" spam all the time on there. I know I'm irresistible and all, but... I think the volume is suspicious.
...because email is so over, Grandpa