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[–]tiny-brown-mug 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

A relative ran into this. She asked a younger (19 or 20) customer for his email address, and he seemed confused. He didn't have one, and never had. I do suspect, though, that e-mail will make a retro comeback, as many young people grow sick of social media. Just like Walkman players, mp3 players, dumb phones, and cassettes. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY2RhHWthXk

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Organization is sometimes necessary over chaos.

[–]pandorasbox 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I doubt that is true.. you gotta have an email to use a phone.. anyone 18 yrs old has a phone.

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gen Z and younger choosing a proprietary, closed source, monolithic solution such as slack or WhatsApp, rather than a fully decentralized solution such as email is peak gen Z.

My bet is if they use email, they probably know of and would only use one, Gmail.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

After trying to set up social media platforms and running into a lot of confusion, I'm now resorting to the lowest common denominator, email-list-groups, to organize our local resistance communities, just like we did in animation and Burning Man communities 20+ years ago.

It was bad enough when folks couldn't compose decently literate emails. Now with chats and messaging and other social media there's no discipline, much less organization.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It is weird that all the "resistance" communities seem to organize and advertise through Facebook or other corporate/gov't institutions.

There are still a couple going out there. We did have someone recently on a local 30 year old email-list call for moderation, which was entertaining.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It is indeed weird yet understandable.
Most folks are low-tech and/or lazy.
And there are only so many fields we can become experts in.
Many folks have only become aware since COVID. I knew most of this shit before COVID - ONLY because I had the luxuries of time and curiosity on disability self-isolated.

[–]catfishrising 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So the west is finally catching up with Korea. /s

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They're not my leaders. This is just an excuse to put out more pro-WEF propaganda.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I read an article recently talking about the intergenerational miscommunication going on over texting and our language being reduced to representative images. The younger workers were getting really upset with their older coworkers. Turns out, those older than 40 use the thumb's up icon to mean, "got it, conversation over." And the younger generation interpret it as "fuck off, loser."

[–]YurariYurato 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think they will be replaced even if young people communicate otherwise...

[–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean.. IM was a thing for decades and it didnt render emails irrelevant.