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Exactly, its like saying teenagers don't use email. Everyone they care about is close by, you want to keep in close contact. Once you get past college many of y
by coldcode 13y ago
Exactly, its like saying teenagers don't use email. Everyone they care about is close by, you want to keep in close contact. Once you get past college many of your friends are very distant and you need slow asynchronous methods to keep in touch. Both my age friends from college and the next generation I met volunteering at a local university use Facebook for that exact reason.
- hnriot 13y agoTeenagers don't use email. They use iMessage.
- andybak 13y agoSo no-one in the 13-18 age bracket owns anything other than iOS devices?
- freshyill 13y agoiMessage is free. It works on Macs, iPhones, iPods and iPads. I don't know what the usage stats are like, but those factors are probably worth a lot to teenagers who either have to pay their own phone bills, or have to convince their parents to do it.
- kunai 13y agoI'm fifteen and nearly all of the time use PGP-encrypted IM/email to communicate.
- login1234 13y agocalling bs on that right now
- mikehotel 13y agoI believe kunai but agree that use of encryption in messaging is very atypical, regardless of age.
- kunai 13y agoI'd say that's mostly due to outside use. If your friends don't care about encryption, you would never use it. Since I have an extremely small social circle, I can afford to use encryption because I can actually convince people to use it.
- sib 13y agoI have a 13-year-old daughter. She and all of her friends use email. Also iMessage ad WhatsApp. And they pretty much all have Facebook profiles as well.
- superuser2 13y agoIn my experience we send "email" type communication almost exclusively by Facebook messaging. I have never in my life written or received an email from someone in my age bracket intended to communicate. When my classmates and I use email, it is to share attachments or to communicate with adults. iMessage is just slightly nicer SMS. Very common in Apple-heavy social groups and not that useful in others.