Email is so 1990’s…
Lately it feels that my generation and teenagers are using text and instant messaging more than ever. So the question I have, is email becoming a thing of the past?
85% of teenagers say that they use the Internet to communicate with the their friends, and websites like MySpace and YouTube offer a rich multimedia and interactive experience that email can’t provide. Communication as we know it is rapidly changing. Teens often quote email as dull and boring. They think it is for official correspondence with companies, and is used as a formal way to communicate.
To keep up with this trend we must embrace it and develop new ways to interact with each other. In the web industry you must stay up to date. This benefits not only your business, but it benefits your clients as well. Social marketing and design is a must in today’s web 2.0 environment.
So get out your thinking caps and start developing. The world is yours!
One Response
4
2006
Well I still enjoy traditional emailing at times. It’s not my favorite method of communication but I still do it a few times a week. Despite what we may think, there are still those individuals who aren’t on Myspace, or who don’t have instant messaging…. I seem to know quite a few.
But yes emailing has certainly taken the back burner lately, and that’s probably because it’s so slow. For a normal conversation it doesn’t quite work. With the fast pace of todays society everyone relies on speed: IM Text ..ect.