Textual Criticism

Teen Entrepreneurs Say Email is for Work Only : Dory Devlin : Yahoo! Tech

We've heard about how email is yesterday's communication for today's teens before, but here are some pretty compelling comments from young entrepreneurs at the center of teen online life about how teens use tech to communicate. They're from Cnet's Stefanie Olsen's report from the YPulse Mashup 2007 conference in San Francisco.



• Emo Girl Talk podcast host Martina Butler says she only uses email for business and to win sponsors.



• If teens send emails to each other, most only do it via Facebook or another social network.



• Teens text. Period. Asheem Badshah, the teen-aged president of Scriptovia.com, an essay-sharing web site, says: "For me even IM died, and was replaced by text messaging. Facebook will replace e-mail for communicating with certain people."



• Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook.com, said she still emails some friends, but she sends thousands of text messages a month: "I don't know any teen who doesn't have a phone with them all the time."

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