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  • Date: Friday, December 12, 2008 Time: 10:48 am Category: Email, The Internet, text messaging Tagged Email, gmail, text messaging, web-based email Discussion: 0 Comments

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As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Web-based email, I saw this post today on ReadWriteWeb about student use of email and how they prefer texting.

Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting

Written by Sarah Perez / December 12, 2008

Today’s high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email. Send a text message instead.

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