Comments on: Young people really do use e-mail

By: FlashBack

FlashBack — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:15:44 +0000

My daughter is 17 this week, my son is 13. My results are close to yours. My son is big on email, the daughter who regularly check their email, however, now that the hit on his own and obtained a Gmail account – the first email address I have created for her.

She is huge on Facebook, like most of his friends, and yes, they do all their communicating that way. And text.

If you really want to get to it, is by sending a text message or Facebook – but careful not to answer on Facebook in order to gain access to their profile.

Her behavior was different from his brother. He had no interest in social networks so far (apart from your time at Neopets, which is passed). She went Xanga, MySpace over Facebook.

By: Whitney

Whitney — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:03:16 +0000

I started a blog with my 10-year-old brother last summer. While he doesn’t get some of the nuances of LiveJournal code, he loves copy/pasting YouTube videos and photos into his blog posts. I started the blog with him to give him a head start in using and understanding the Web (maybe my frustrations with Web-hating student journalists – yes they exist – are getting to me). It also works to improve his writing and basic HTML skills. I hope it’ll help him in the future.

We keep the blog private so we don’t have to worry about trolls and creepy Web stalkers. I’d definitely encourage this in other families, especially those with pre-middle school kids.

By: Kurt Greenbaum

Kurt Greenbaum — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:03:12 +0000

My daughter is 17 this coming week; my son is 13. My results are close to yours. My son is big into email; the daughter does check her email regularly, however, now that’s struck out on her own and gotten a gmail account — the first email address that I didn’t set up for her.

She is huge into Facebook, as are most of her friends, and yes, they do all their communicating that way. And by text.

If I really want to reach her, it’s by sending her a text or a Facebook message — though she’s careful never to REPLY on Facebook, lest I get access to her profile.

Her pattern has been different from her brother’s. He has had no interest in social networks so far (aside from his time on Neopets, which is past). She progressed from Xanga, through MySpace to Facebook.