Teens, abandoning emails, to adopt SMS
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Time to move on. Teens spending their life sending and receiving emails is a old-fashioned cliché. At least for American teens. Now, as a ComScore study shows, what they like are MySpace, IM, text messages. In order.
“Even instant messaging, while popular, is slowing,” reports Mercury News (via textually). “Total IM users increased only 1 percent, while the number of teen users declined 8 percent ― in part, some experts say, because of the rise of MySpace, which allows users to send comments and messages to each other.”
But capturing popularity on MySpace seems the bigger trend: “In Robert Wright’s math class at Morrill Middle School in San Jose, all but one of 31 seventh-graders last week said they had e-mail accounts, but several got them just to sign up for MySpace, which requires an e-mail address. Most don’t check e-mail more than once a week. It will be even less once school lets out and they don’t need to search for homework assignments, they said.”
Helio, which is launched as the mobile phone MySpace partner, should consider push harder into the MySpace functionalities, instead of morphing into a Nintendo NGage competitor.
Jun 13, 2006 | By Nuno
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