{"id":3140,"date":"2011-05-10T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T00:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2011-05-18T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:51:36","slug":"the-kids-are-right-alright-email-is-next-to-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-kids-are-right-alright-email-is-next-to-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kids are Right Alright; email is next to useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More that one study, more that one observer, more than one predictor has noticed that teens as early as 2005 were abandoning email. Chad Lorenz writing in Slate spent some serious time in anecdotage whilst writing his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2177969\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">The Death of E-Mail<br \/>\nTeenagers are abandoning their Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts. Do the rest of us have to?<\/a> back in 2007, but he also cites some of the early Pew studies on teens and email.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz would be even more pessimistic about email if he could have leapt to the future and read t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Commentary\/2010\/November\/Pew-Internet-Data-Provides-Context-for-the-Facebook-Messages-Announcement.aspx\">his 2010 report on teens and their communication choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth reading and following <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/millennials\/\">The Pew Millennials Project.<\/a> which is ongoing. And fun to take <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/millennials\/quiz\/\">the &#8220;How Millennial are You?&#8221; quiz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Commentary\/2010\/November\/~\/media\/Infographics\/Report%20Infographics\/2010\/08%20Teens%20and%20Mobile%20Phones\/Chapter%202\/2-15%20Activities%20over%20time.jpg?w=503&#038;h=750&#038;as=1\" alt=\"Teens and communication choices\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More that one study, more that one observer, more than one predictor has noticed that teens as early as 2005 were abandoning email. Chad Lorenz writing in Slate spent some serious time in anecdotage whilst writing his article, The Death of E-Mail Teenagers are abandoning their Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts. Do the rest of us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}