Re:Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year
by pama on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @08:37PM
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How accurate are these types of measurements? Even if teen email use in the US dropped dramatically last year, how do we know it was replaced by facebook use?
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Re:Email Use Drops by 59% Amongst US Teens in One Year
by brc on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @09:48PM
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Exactly - how on earth do you compute 'teen email use'? If it is self-reported it is likely to be inaccurate. If it's based on some type of network analysis, the amount of spam would skew statistics, because spam is only sorted generally at the point of arrival.
Anyways, color me skeptical.
Even if it was Facebook messaging taking over from email, that's hardly a problem, because in the eyes of the user, facebook messages are email. You have an inbox, sent items, new message, etc. If/when the teens get to a job or study, they aren't going to be stumped by viewing a messaging client instead of a facebook page.