Emails Are So Yesterday

[The Big PINK One♥]

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 Stephanie 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 you communicating most these days?

[jaye510]

I talk to my friends on myspace or either I text them. I rarely email people.

[The Big PINK One♥]

WOW thats what those girls said in the article, they use facebook or other social networks to communicate or text their friends. I think that texting is very critical because it goes where ever you go so you'll never be able to NOT get in touch with the person that you're trying to contact because theyre always a txt awy ;D

[buriedindefeat]

I never e-mail.. I used to in grade 3 or 4, but that was 5 or 6 years ago now. I use IM, most of my friends have msn.
I would probably be using text messages to, but I don't know how to use it

[keedy]

there's nothing wrong with email. Everyone doesn't have a cell phone.

[The Big PINK One♥]

keedy said:

there's nothing wrong with email. Everyone doesn't have a cell phone.

... and not to mention, some people are just too far to communicate with them or sometimes you just met the person so the best way to smoove things over is to use email. (Its also a safer way to communicate with that person & get to know them)

I know personally it seems like I only communicate with my friends through myspace and email because its the only way I can really. I really don't have time to sit and talk on the phone like everyone would think

[kimmykins83]

I don't ever use or send emails hardly any more nowadays unlike I used to years ago

[ashley13]

i used to be addicted to email in the fourth and fifth grade then it was IM now its myspace or through forums

[kimmykins83]

It's gotta be MSN Messenger or PM's via forums for me all the way now

[ashleenahpage]

uhh usually txt messaging or bebo/myspace or msn/yahoo but i do e-mail my best friend sometimes lolz