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Teenagers don't use email. They use iMessage.
by hnriot 13y ago
Teenagers 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.