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It had to happen sooner or later, but teens largely see email as old school. According to the Associated Press, it's a "a good way to reach an elder – a parent, teacher or a boss – or to receive an attached file." Email is largely being replaced by instant messaging, blogs and social networking sites. I must be getting older because my email load is growing, not shrinking. I gotta start spending more time with teens.
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You, or Bloglines, or someone, really need to fix the Bloglines problem you mentioned here: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/07/bloglines_glitc.html. Unfortunately I'm not going to stop using Bloglines, and I'm getting really tired of scrolling past old posts for the umpteenth time. You have nearly 3,000 Bloglines readers, so you must be one of their bigger blogs; can't you get them to give any attention to the problem?
Posted by: Bob Myers | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 08:42 PM
It was fixed for 24 hours or so. I assure you that the FeedBurner crew is working on it feverishly and at a very senior level.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 08:58 PM
Hey Steve,
Dont know what's going on with TypePad but it blocked my posting as spam. So in lieu of that, I've posted it here:
http://www.emergence-media.com/2006/07/changing-online-behavior-email-is-old/
Posted by: DanielR | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 11:29 PM
Many teens also do a lot of things we "grownups" don't: play lots of videogames, hang out in places you'd never go, dress up their own way and so on... They have a "teenager" life, and email is not part of it. (I'm not implying all teens play videogames - hopefully you all know what I mean)...
So the big question Steve, the way I see it, is whether these teens will start using email more and more as they get older, and whether email will also evolve as I think it will.
Posted by: RBA | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 11:42 PM
I have an in-house focus group of teenagers. The 15-year-old communicates via IM and "his wall" on Facebook. The 19-year-old is old school IM & e-mail -- like her dad. I can't get either of them interested in RSS.
Posted by: Rex Hammock | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 11:45 PM
Does that mean:
eMail will be dead soon?
BTW, just so that you know, I could not access MicroPersuasion through my Indian ISP. Seems like they have blocked access to your site along with Blogger and TypePad. Have you been writing anything nasty about the Indian Govt? Not that you have any reason to write about that... Gives you a heady feeling, though, doesn't it?
Regards,
Shri.
Posted by: Shrikant Joshi | Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 02:21 AM