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]
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67 Posted by alvintai626 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:51PM EDT Report Abuse
WTH?!?! this is stupid they don't take like across the country for a better estimate. 0.o
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68 Posted by lilswt_ms70s on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:51PM EDT Report Abuse
what the heck? this is trash. all my friends and me email and IM all the time. so whattheheck is this aritcle talking about?? it was pretty stupid in my opinion.
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69 Posted by brianc1998 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:13PM EDT Report Abuse
Could this article be written or influenced by cell phone companies looking for more revenue? Email, cell, IM, text, ... alll are used. Get some friends overseas or in a different time zone and you will be using email. With friends in town, sometimes text, IM, email jokes, all depends.
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70 Posted by hardcoreemolover22 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:16PM EDT Report Abuse
WOW,I didn't even know about that I'm a teen.This whole time I always talk to my friends in email or iming.I have cell phone but I hardly use it unless I am going somewhere and I need to contact someone.I guess it depends on that person
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71 Posted by little_kero_girl on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:54PM EDT Report Abuse
I'm legally blind. Text? I can hardly read my computer, let alone anything on a phone!
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72 Posted by lollia2711 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:56PM EDT Report Abuse
yeah. i text all the time. i IM all the time. but i rarely use email. mainly because, unlike IM and texting, emailing is much more time consuming. and like others have said, myspace and facebook are much easier ways to keep in touch with old friends and such. mostly, my friends and i use email to send our homework to our teachers and such. haha were lazy, but our teachers like it that way. and honestly, no one emails anymore because to most kids its not 'cool.' having a myspace or a facebook is the cool thing to do. so of course, people are use that or texting/IM to keep in touch. ehh and for those of you saying that everyone emails, seriously. come on. no, they dont. it much easier, faster, and more convenient than emailing period.
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73 Posted by do_scars_ever_heal on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:47PM EDT Report Abuse
This made me actually laugh. I'm nearly 17 and I've never sent a text message in my life! I don't have a facebook or a myspace and I only use my cell phone for something very important, like if I'm stuck somewhere and need my parents to come get me. I use email for everything. I have two sepreate email accounts, one for my friends and the other for business. It's crazy to say that all teens only use email for business, because I'm a teen and I still use email to talk to my friends! What's more, the friends I talk to use myspace and facebook, so they obviously check their email to get my messages. I agree with this article in part, however. My younger brother, who's also a teenager, is very much like this. It depends on the teen, that's all.
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74 Posted by oldguysrule98 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:44PM EDT Report Abuse
my god i use e~mail and IM all the time to xchat with my friends. most of my friends don't have a cell phone only one of my friends has a pphone and texts some but not much.,
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75 Posted by ash3698 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:58PM EDT Report Abuse
hmm, I'm a teenager, and all i ever do is email. lol.
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76 Posted by mickycohen714 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:19PM EDT Report Abuse
Oh. I figured they were talking about Chat-Rooms. It would be kinda cool to chat with about anybody in the world through a wireless chat room program for your cell or something. Hey think about it; You can watch tv with an I-Phone... =)
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77 Posted by tntgirl11 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:14PM EDT Report Abuse
you lucky people i don't even have a cell phone
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78 Posted by acousticnash on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:45PM EDT Report Abuse
Texting is not the new way of cummunication, its used for when not near the computer in which AIM or any messenger is what kids communicate with. Plus why make a stupid article like this. You dont make any articles on what adults do in the bedroom every second, stop wasting ur time with what kids do.
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79 Posted by diet_vance44 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:43PM EDT Report Abuse
I am 14 years old and i text like quite a bit. I love it. Texting is awesome. i still use email but not as much anymore. i rarely ever use IM unless i am super bored. Every teenager i know has a cell phone now.
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80 Posted by c1245b on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:16PM EDT Report Abuse
I am a teen entrepenuer and I use email for work and for friends so it really doesnt matter. I mean i text to. Which teen doesnt(except for kids who dont have cellphones) but still I mean thats what I do. Business is always email though. Friends are aim or email or text and thats it
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81 Posted by m_neway on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:32PM EDT Report Abuse
I don't agree. I use e-mail to keep in touch with friends..i also think e-mails are the over all most use networking websites i know.Just happing to be tx msg and other networking websites all so are in use like e-mails now.
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82 Posted by nathanastin on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:34PM EDT Report Abuse
I am a teacher and cell phones are a huge problem in schools. Every kid has one and they constantly think about texting, and do it. It has become an addiction because there is nothing that important that they need to text hundreds of times a day. Parents need to be more active at discipling and not letting students be so obnoxious. Personally, I think there is no reason that any teen should have a phone. Period. I know their parents and them will claim it's for safety, but there are phones everywhere and students from the past never needed them. Parents please don't act like this is teens embracing technology. It's a true addiction and distraction. Our future looks very bleak with the way our teens are behaving. They will have no smarts or skills because of the vast array of distractions.
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83 Posted by littlebitcosper on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:54PM EDT Report Abuse
I am a teen and I use texting, actually talking on the phone, myspace, facebook, and e-mail, all depending on who I am talking to and about what. This is silly...everybody uses everything.
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84 Posted by chicksayshello on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:23PM EDT Report Abuse
well everything everyone has said is true. nobody is wrong. yes most teenagers do txt more than email. but you also have to look at all the phones today where you can go online and check you email while you are on your phone. emailing isnt a thing in the past. i mean we have myspace facebook or whatever else is ou there. just i think if your going to say something like that you should look at all the facts and not just 10 ppl. that is stupid that is why ppl are stupid cause they dont look at all the facts. so email isnt a thing in the past its still up to date and widely used
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85 Posted by jackalopemounty on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:26PM EDT Report Abuse
Sounds like a ploy to get folks to text more. The best part of this article was the cute girl in the picture.
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66 Posted by rchau11 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:31PM EDT Report Abuse
This article was the most blatant kind of teenage stereotype I've ever seen. Teens don't all use their cell phones to text, heck most of my friends don't text at all! What's wrong with email? And what in the name of _____ is wrong with shorthand? Are we that lazy to type a few more letters in. I mean, shorthand in texting is fine, since it's hard and inconvienient then, but, teenagers know how to spell words! When they're on the computer, they have tons of time on their hands! *gotta stop rambling* Besides, texting is not free, like email is. Or IM. Or whatever, my phone service charges me 2 cents per message. If a teen uses a phone to text, and sends 2000 messages (as someone said earlier), that amounts to 200 dollars...a month!