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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  • 746 Posted by sweetie92mnk on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:51PM EDT Report Abuse

    i dont use email as much as i use to because i use aim but its completly safe!! but i do gett on often to see if i gett anything from school or friends that dont have aim!!!

  • 747 Posted by georgestraubing on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:08PM EDT Report Abuse

    Who gives a hoot? Well, that's kind of a shallow response. You can do a lot more done in less time with email—no doubt about it. Texting is okay for fun though. Just don't do it while driving.

  • 748 Posted by jskippack on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:43PM EDT Report Abuse

    I'm a teen. I don't even have a cell phone, nor do I use Facebook or Myspace or any of that crap. Email happens to be my prime way of communication with several of my friends, and the rest is usually face-to-face or on the landline. In other words, I don't know what you're talking about.

  • 749 Posted by toviaheli on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:18PM EDT Report Abuse

    I work in the entertainment industry. Kids emulate what the celebs are doing and texting is the primary way the celebs communicate. It is more secure. There's less chance of someone getting hold of a text than downloading or hacking your e-mail or IM chat logs.

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