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it's pretty hard to beat either a phone call or email. I like email too, but it's difficult to reach young people this way. They may not even have email ad
by mafribe 10y ago
it's pretty hard to beat
either a phone call or email.
I like email too, but it's difficult to reach young people this way. They may not even have email addresses. In my world, phonecalls now have primarily two purposes: emergencies (XYZ had an accident, come to hospital immediately) and communicating with the very old, so I rarely use it anymore.
Everything else is:
That would not fly in my milieu. Many things are organised via Whatsapp/LINE etc. I'd become an outcaste if I ignored this.
- mrweasel 10y ago>That would not fly in my milieu. That's really the key. I might prefer email, but I'm the only one in my group of friends and family that works that way. SMS is the preferred choice for my family and Facebook for anyone else. In most cases you just need to accept that the people you need to communicate with may have other preferences. I would be surprised to find that someone didn't have an email address though. Don't you still need that for signing up for most services? Whether someone check their email or not is a different story of cause.
- arkades 10y ago> I like email too, but it's difficult to reach young people this way. I gifted my 13yo niece a year of Spotify recently and, to create her account, they required an email address. She looks at me half-confused. "I can just use my usual, right?" "Sure," I say, a bit confused by the question and watching to see what that means. Turns out in her peer group they all use 10 minute expiring emails from various free net services. Gmail is something they just hold onto for notifications from school and older relatives.