E-mail Is, Like, Soooo Dead

[Dubh Aingeal]

"'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.

[Scary Guy]

see I avoid communication on social networks because it's stupid. I hate PM's

Instant message me if anything.

EDIT: I should clarify that I'm talking about PM's vs e-mail, not text messages specifically.

Because I really hate PM's

[BrassFusion]

just like writing letters socially died (for all intents and purposes) with the advent of the telephone. duh... =)

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Cell phones are mini laptops basically. A text message on a cell phone is fundamentally the same as an email, just they get right to the person, quickly usually because people carry their phones around with them.

But PMs, Emails, Text messages and IMs are all very similar. The boundaries between these things is becoming more and more fuzzy. Fundamentally they are all the same thing but with different focus and features. "fast electronic based text communication"

[sass_in_the_pants]

A THOUSAND text messages a month?

A THOUSAND?

I don't think I say a thousand words in a month.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

A THOUSAND text messages a month?

A THOUSAND?

I don't think I say a thousand words in a month.

Yeah thats insane. I post on DGN constantly, and have been doing so fairly regularly for 6 years and im at 17,000 posts (which is fairly psycho) That'd be 230 ish "posts" a month. With the whole having to use the keypad to type messages thing on a phone theres no chance in hell i'd be pushing out 230 text messages a month, much less 1000.

[know_buddy_kares]

I guess I'm an old fart then too lol. I bloody hate texting on phones. I think phones should be phones, I don't wanna use it to check my e-mail or my myspace to get a hold of someone, what's the point in having a phone if I never use it to actually call someone and vice versa. All internet stuff can wait until I'm sitting in front of a computer screen. Though I rarely ever get any messages in my e-mail other than sending pictures or other files, I've kept my e-mail the same for years now as that's intended to be my stable communication with anyone. If they know it, then they'll always have a way to get in touch with me, even if other online accounts, phone numbers, or home adress change. Ironicly somehow, this e-mail that I've only told friends, yet not kept it secret by any means, is the ONLY e-mail account I have of wich I've never once EVER received a spam letter. But as far as PM's go, i see it as an e-mail specific to that network alone. Such as DGN PM's, you gotta be a member here to PM someone, and it's retrospectivly the same as an e-mail, like myspace and other places, however it's specific only to this place. So I gotta keep up with this and my myspace (I really have no time to keep up with anything else online socially, nor do I care to) instead of being able to simply check one account.

Instant messaging such as yahoo, and msn (really the only ones I use, i fucking hate AIM with a passion) it's like the same damn thing with offlines. When you boil it down, it's all the same as oh, didn't get a hold of them, I can leave them a message. When really, anything I wouldn't consider a PM/IM or offline/e-mail/text/phone call or voice mail (wich are all relatively the same damn thing to me in principal) Is a chat room or public forum such as this, where instead of a one on one convo, I'm speaking to anyone who cares to read what I may have to say, it's not just limited to a specific person.