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I don't know your age, but I know very few people my age who use email for anything beyond professional correspondence. I don't want friends/girlfriends to ema
by mrjatx 13y ago
I don't know your age, but I know very few people my age who use email for anything beyond professional correspondence. I don't want friends/girlfriends to email me if they need to communicate quickly. I can just see it now, "Hey Dave, wanna head to the W?" ... 8 hours later "Sorry, just got this, why didn't you text me?"
- soperj 13y agoI get all my emails on my phone. I can answer them just as easy as a text. I really don't see the difference and haven't for years now.
- mrjatx 13y agoYou're also on hackernews. You're probably a programmer of some sort. Quit assuming that everybody else is a technology forward as you. Most of society does not get their emails on their phone. Most of cell-phone carrying society can always receive a text.
- Jare 13y agoFWIW I'm the only person in my family that reads hacker news, and I'm also the only person in my family that does NOT receive personal email on my phone.
- mrjatx 13y agoYeah, people are different. Assuming everyone gets email on their phone vs text messaging which is pretty much ubiquitous is completely my point. I can cement my point even further. You don't get emails, your family does, but you all get text messages. Bam, that was easy.
- bane 13y agoActually, I went through and thought about it a bit. Most of the people I know that are my age or younger have actually turned off texting because it's almost entirely used for spam. It's pretty much a byproduct of a time that's quickly going by.
- bane 13y agoThese days, the only people I know who text are 45+...and with 1 exception, they're all struggling to decide if they want to switch to smartphones yet. I can't think of a single person under that age I know who texts. They all use something else. Mostly google chat (or hangouts or whatever), kakaotalk or Facebook's IM.