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If you think your mom is hopelessly locked in the stone age when she talks about exchanging paper letters with Aunt Edna, you'd better be careful about how you offer to keep in touch with your nieces and nephews as they head off to college. If you offer your e-mail address, you may very well be considered obsolete.
A new study shows that teens think e-mail is dead, with 80-percent relying on text messaging from their cell phones and most using messaging services from sites like MySpace and Facebook for casual communications. Even instant messaging (like AIM) is apparently considered passe, with today's youth apparently finally realizing it's sometimes very annoying to have random people chatting you up when you're trying to get something done.
According to the study, teens do still use e-mail, but only for limited purposes, like sending files or -- *gulp* -- talking to an "elder". So, better get that Facebook account setup, grandpa.
From textually.org
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Subscribe to commentsSarahJul 23rd 2007 2:00PM
well,...DUH! I have two teenagers and both of them d/c'd their email accounts two years ago when myspace came out and texting became all the rage. Before that, they did have email accounts, but would only use them to IM people. They used to spend hours in front of the computer IM'ing (pretending to be doing "homework"), but now they only get on the computer to really do homework, which is rare. My son is off to college this fall, and he had to create another email address for college applications, which he hated doing, and he never checks it.