Office of Information Technology Blog » text messaging http://blog.oit.wvu.edu OIT’s technology blog for WVU faculty, staff and students Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 ReadWriteWeb: Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting http://blog.oit.wvu.edu/2008/12/12/students-prefer-gmail-texting/ http://blog.oit.wvu.edu/2008/12/12/students-prefer-gmail-texting/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:48:27 +0000 Sarah Barnes http://blog.oit.wvu.edu/?p=504 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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