It’s Official: Email Is For Old People

Every time you send an email, just realize this:  When you hit the send button, you might as well eat dinner at 4:30 P.M., hitch up your pants, and move to Florida to play shuffleboard.  Because email is now officially for OLD PEOPLE. Stupid kids with your fancy computers! Pull up your pants and get a job! Anyway, you can read more on the next page.

According to a new study, between December of 2009 and December of last year, the amount of email use by people aged 12 to 17 dropped 59%.  For 25 to 34 year olds, it dropped 18%.

In fact, email use dropped for every age group...except people over 55.  People 55 to 64 spent 22% more time emailing.  For people 65 and over, email use went up 28%.

Instead of emailing, younger people prefer to communicate…well…every other way.  Except actually talking to each other, naturally.  Facebook, instant messaging, social media, and texting all went up as email use went down.

(TechCrunch)