Teen Entrepreneurs Say Email is for Work Only
Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:12PM EDT
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We've heard about how email is yesterday's communication for today's teens before, but here are some pretty compelling comments from young entrepreneurs at the center of teen online life about how teens use tech to communicate. They're from Cnet's Stefanie Olsen's report from the YPulse Mashup 2007 conference in San Francisco.
• Emo Girl Talk podcast host Martina Butler says she only uses email for business and to win sponsors.
• If teens send emails to each other, most only do it via Facebook or another social network.
• Teens text. Period. Asheem Badshah, the teen-aged president of Scriptovia.com, an essay-sharing web site, says: "For me even IM died, and was replaced by text messaging. Facebook will replace e-mail for communicating with certain people."
• Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook.com, said she still emails some friends, but she sends thousands of text messages a month: "I don't know any teen who doesn't have a phone with them all the time."
Hearing it straight from teen entrepreneurs gives parents a look into what they can expect from their own teens. (Thanks to Anne Collier at NetFamilyNews for the link.) How are your teens communicating most these days?
LINKS: Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead [Cnet]
Finding the teen gene [Yodel Anecdotal]
Related: Fast-Growing myYearbook.com Gets $4.1 million
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2 Posted by janettwokay on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:28PM EDT Report Abuse
I, too, don't know what that's all about. My kids use e-mail or IM to communicate with their friends. They don't text message on cell phones, only talk on them (but mostly they talk on the old style land-line phone at home).
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3 Posted by nintendoforever027 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:39PM EDT Report Abuse
LOL rubbish article. It depends on the person.
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4 Posted by noah1925 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:40PM EDT Report Abuse
sounds like you two don't have much of a social life. Texting is more of a social medium as emailing is more of a school/business one.
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5 Posted by no_luck1072 on Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:17PM EDT Report Abuse
what world do your kids live in.They don't text if thats what they are telling you then find out what else they lie about.Its 2007 my 9yr old knows how to text .Wake up and look at the calender its not the 60's
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1 Posted by twixmix180 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:25PM EDT Report Abuse
Wow, I don't know what that's about, I'm a teen and I use Email all the time, during the school year I Email study guides to friends, and during the summer I still Email to stay in touch with people.