Comments on: Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead

The future of e-mail might be found on the pages of MySpace and Facebook, if teen habits are any indicator.

[jalops205]

e-mail

When your text messages are not all fun and games, you will go back to e-mail, an upgrade or an entirely new form of discretionary messaging - not a free-for-all where the grammar and spelling are so pathetic that the actual meaning is obscured - as I am a sure that this message is to most of you.

Can we please have a new generation of people with IQs in 3-digits,i.e. **** sapiens sapiens ?

[Fil0403]

So...

...everybody who communicates via text messages is dumb?

[gnutux]

Not all have multiple networks

I myself, like many others centralise themselves around Facebook. I also have MySpace, HI5 and Orkut, but really, Facebook is the central hub for my friends. I rarely touch MySpace, HI5 and/or Orkut at all. However, on the email factor. I check my email every twice a day since I still receive emails from my friends, attachments and what-not. It's really different for each person and this can't be generalised. For example, MySpace over where I live is dying down and Facebook is quickly taking its place. Back then when this who social networking fiasco started. All I remember was Friendster (even though was never a member there). However, these networking sites have been dog-fighting for years. I think that Facebook is out-winning them over here in Toronto as you can see that the Toronto,ON network is by far the regional network with the most people.

gnutux

[hormesis]

Meanwhile

While you adults waste your time on the computer (wow, doesn't that sound familiar?) complaining about how immature my generation is, I'm going to go study up to take a professional level certification exam (CompTIA A+, for those computer-savvy users). Oh yeah, and I'm sixteen, by the way.

[jalops205]

Meanwhile

No, your generation is not immature at all.
After you pass your CompTIA A+ exam for computer-savvy (obviously not English savvy) users, you will be emminently qualified to be a computer technician.

Stay in school while adults waste their time.

[alphatourix]

"is, like, soooo dead"

sure, use im and tm if privacy is not an issue. these kids were born in the ocean of marketing wars so they probably feel they have developed natural immunity against privacy sharks. "the future is friendly(tm)", right? in fact, adolescence is a time to reject old behavior and experiment with new one; this is how the human species evolves now. but in the fitness landscape there are peaks and there are pits. in other words, not everybody will make it.

[corpicory]

Counter

Kids may say and claim that email is dead, and we may complain that it isn't dead and that the kids don't know anything that's going on, and that these social networking sites are worthless, but we have to take a look at ourselves too. We don't send letters by "snail mail" much anymore. Email is our myspace, just as snail mail is the adult version of the teen's idea of email. We shouldn't judge kids these days, because we're acting just like them. When we revert to sending mail via the post office, then we can talk.

[flickrz]

These kids are, like, sooooo stupid

Nobody emails to decide where they are going to get together for party. That has always been either phone, sms or IMs. Even 10 years ago when we were teens and had started using emails. It was never a mainstream communication medium. However, it definitely was a medium that replaced our snail mail. It has always been a formal mode of communication. Those who say email is dead are still immature and haven't seen real world. How are they going to communicate in office environment? Write on boss's wall in facebook? give me a break. And, whats this fuss about sms? Its not new. It's been there since 10 years. The whole discussion is not out of place here. What kids do today isn't what they are going to do tomorrow when they go to office. Unless, they don't study and end up flipping burgers in McD or BK (oh sorry, mexicans have got those jobs).

[Michael Labay]

Ha ha!

for a minute there, it sounded as if you were dissing mexicans.

However, since most mexicans working at BK or McD are
bilingual, they are of superior intellect.

Those monolingual kids are like, soooo outsource-able.

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