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A friend of mine who is a tutor for middle schoolers once told me that her students would send her assignments via their parents email id. She asked her student

by dm8 14y ago

A friend of mine who is a tutor for middle schoolers once told me that her students would send her assignments via their parents email id. She asked her students why they are not using their own email id since its free. In response students told that they use Facebook messages for communication amongst all the students and email is for old people. I was shocked when I heard this from her. Kids are future and facebook is integral to their life. Much like web based stuff (Amazon, Google etc.) was to my generation (born in 80s). Edit: Grammar

freehunter 14y ago
Hell, I was born in the late 80s, and email is only useful to me at work. I generally don't check my email unless I need to find a tracking number or someone calls me and says they've emailed me something. Facebook is one part of it. Texting is another. Phone calls are big with some friends (mostly with family). Email combines massive amounts of information that's not immediately useful (payment verification, tracking numbers, bank statements, etc) with a response that's far from instant. Combine that with the "no one uses it, because no one uses it" effect, and email is one of the most inconsequential technologies in my life. But Facebook is not, at its core, integral to their/our lives. Instant broadcast information is. Like I say quite often, the iPhone didn't need Apple to make it, Apple just happened to be the one who did. Facebook could be supplanted tomorrow by anything, and the effect would be exactly the same.
- ajasmin 14y ago
  What kind of instant notification are you subscribing to? Instant messaging? Don't you prefer things piling up in a queue(email) rather than being constantly distracted?
  - freehunter 14y ago
    At home I use AIM and Facebook chat, at work I use our corporate IM. When I need to get down to business, I turn it off. I don't like things piling up because that usually means I need to take time out to prioritize and work on things all at once. I'm generally not a busy person, so dealing with things as they come in works out fine. When I am busy, I make adjustments to the timing of distractions to let me think for a bit. Just because I'm made aware of something instantly doesn't mean it will take all my attention instantly, just that I can now process and prioritize that event within whatever else I have going on.

by dm8 14y ago

freehunter 14y ago

Hell, I was born in the late 80s, and email is only useful to me at work. I generally don't check my email unless I need to find a tracking number or someone calls me and says they've emailed me something. Facebook is one part of it. Texting is another. Phone calls are big with some friends (mostly with family). Email combines massive amounts of information that's not immediately useful (payment verification, tracking numbers, bank statements, etc) with a response that's far from instant. Combine that with the "no one uses it, because no one uses it" effect, and email is one of the most inconsequential technologies in my life. But Facebook is not, at its core, integral to their/our lives. Instant broadcast information is. Like I say quite often, the iPhone didn't need Apple to make it, Apple just happened to be the one who did. Facebook could be supplanted tomorrow by anything, and the effect would be exactly the same.

ajasmin 14y ago
What kind of instant notification are you subscribing to? Instant messaging? Don't you prefer things piling up in a queue(email) rather than being constantly distracted?
- freehunter 14y ago
  At home I use AIM and Facebook chat, at work I use our corporate IM. When I need to get down to business, I turn it off. I don't like things piling up because that usually means I need to take time out to prioritize and work on things all at once. I'm generally not a busy person, so dealing with things as they come in works out fine. When I am busy, I make adjustments to the timing of distractions to let me think for a bit. Just because I'm made aware of something instantly doesn't mean it will take all my attention instantly, just that I can now process and prioritize that event within whatever else I have going on.