TimmyHIs email dead?
July 1st 2008 06:40
Is email dead? Well not everywhere. Email is still the preferred method of communication throughout the business world in 2008, but Generation Y is beginning to reject this technology.
When teens need to communicate with Adults, they resort to email as Generation X would have written a letter or sent a postcard to their war aged parents. But they do not communicate with one another via this medium. Although email is still the most used Internet resource, Instant Messaging and Social Networking are becoming much more prevalent amongst young people.
Teens confirm that they utilize e-mail only for what they identify as business purposes, when they're dealing with adults or no other mode of communication makes sense. More often than not, Generation Y uses email to communicate with outsiders. Universities, bosses, and family all fall into this outside sphere. They will use the technology when communicating with this outside world, but for socialising, email is just too slow.
Teens now rely on Instant Messaging, SMS text messaging and social networks like MySpace and Facebook for their social interaction. Text messaging is by far the most popular. Most Gen Ys have a mobile with them everywhere they go and for this reason, mobiles are very rarely lost. When getting up to go anywhere, they are the first thing people check. Being more than 10 metres from your mobile phone is incredibly rare today.
The mobile revolution has changed the classroom too. Instead of throwing notes across a classroom when a teacher’s back is turned they’ll be frantically texting under a desk to another student on the other side of the room. Perhaps classrooms need to adopt highway patrol technology that can detect a mobile device when it sends or receives a text message.
Text messaging dominates social arrangements for guys, who, where, what and how. But girls are also using the technology for broader social discussions. Interestingly, whereas in the past there was no record of social interaction, now, senders and receivers of information have a record of what is being said to who, and when. This changes social interaction and makes people much more aware of what they are saying. In some instances, text messages will be repeatedly drafted for possible interpretations by the receiver, and sent at a specific time in order to convey a specific meaning.
Text messaging dominates social interaction because it can be instantaneous. Teens almost always have the mobile phones with them. But Instant Messaging and Social Networking are also very important. Social networking has become a means of finding out vast amounts of information about a person, sometimes before meeting them, or even shortly after a first meeting. If, for example, two people meet at a party, club, camp or sporting event, they need exchange no more information than a name. With that name they can open up a huge amount of information about one another and created a brand new network.
So, is email dead?
The chances are that email will be around for some time to come. The business world favours it because of the large amounts of information that can be exchanged digitally.
Obviously Text Messaging cannot be used for business transactions. Graduates who enter the job market and industry are sure to find that they will need email in order to conduct business. But in social circles, email is well past dead.
When teens need to communicate with Adults, they resort to email as Generation X would have written a letter or sent a postcard to their war aged parents. But they do not communicate with one another via this medium. Although email is still the most used Internet resource, Instant Messaging and Social Networking are becoming much more prevalent amongst young people.
Teens confirm that they utilize e-mail only for what they identify as business purposes, when they're dealing with adults or no other mode of communication makes sense. More often than not, Generation Y uses email to communicate with outsiders. Universities, bosses, and family all fall into this outside sphere. They will use the technology when communicating with this outside world, but for socialising, email is just too slow.
Teens now rely on Instant Messaging, SMS text messaging and social networks like MySpace and Facebook for their social interaction. Text messaging is by far the most popular. Most Gen Ys have a mobile with them everywhere they go and for this reason, mobiles are very rarely lost. When getting up to go anywhere, they are the first thing people check. Being more than 10 metres from your mobile phone is incredibly rare today.
The mobile revolution has changed the classroom too. Instead of throwing notes across a classroom when a teacher’s back is turned they’ll be frantically texting under a desk to another student on the other side of the room. Perhaps classrooms need to adopt highway patrol technology that can detect a mobile device when it sends or receives a text message.
Text messaging dominates social arrangements for guys, who, where, what and how. But girls are also using the technology for broader social discussions. Interestingly, whereas in the past there was no record of social interaction, now, senders and receivers of information have a record of what is being said to who, and when. This changes social interaction and makes people much more aware of what they are saying. In some instances, text messages will be repeatedly drafted for possible interpretations by the receiver, and sent at a specific time in order to convey a specific meaning.
Text messaging dominates social interaction because it can be instantaneous. Teens almost always have the mobile phones with them. But Instant Messaging and Social Networking are also very important. Social networking has become a means of finding out vast amounts of information about a person, sometimes before meeting them, or even shortly after a first meeting. If, for example, two people meet at a party, club, camp or sporting event, they need exchange no more information than a name. With that name they can open up a huge amount of information about one another and created a brand new network.
So, is email dead?
The chances are that email will be around for some time to come. The business world favours it because of the large amounts of information that can be exchanged digitally.
Obviously Text Messaging cannot be used for business transactions. Graduates who enter the job market and industry are sure to find that they will need email in order to conduct business. But in social circles, email is well past dead.
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