Time for a new generation! So there's this study "Teens and Social Media" by the Pew Internet & American Life Project telling us that 64 percent of (American) Internet users between 12 and 17 years - the 'super-communicators' - are engaged in creating and posting online content. They are heavy users of social networking sites and Web 2.0 techniques. They prefer anything except email (which is considered lame). (Source)

Just two thoughts.

There's this term 'media competence'. We'll see if just using today's technologies will be enough to succeed in the information jungle, to tell the good from the bad, the bad from the evil. I don't know how much of these teens one day will be interested in asking how all this stuff actually works. A lot of posts in this blog draw a dark picture of this. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's hope they'll preserve their curiosity and dig deeper instead of just posting youtube videos. 'Super-communicators' - whew!

If email is going to die (and the youth is completely right in this), then spammers will react. Heaven forbid!