<p>Actually, I think some of their terminology got lost in translation. “Snail mail” refers to written letters sent through the post office…Somehow that has gotten turned into email is too slow!!!..[snail</a> mail: Definition from Answers.com](<a href=“Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions”>Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions)</p>
<p>If you look at the Panerai forums, Panerai wearers are definitely a younger set. Look at the Nordstrom website. Even cheaper watches are very much in style. Particularly in gold. I am getting the impression that CC folks aren’t very fashionable. :)</p>
<p>I’m 20yo, still use email, landline (to a limited extent), and wear a watch.</p>
<p>In high school, I realized that, compared to looking at a watch, it was a pain to be pulling out my cell phone all the time just to check the time, not to mention the lack of geometric cues. It’s also near impossible to elegantly time yourself during a phone call.</p>
<p>Email vs text might be a temporary thing. In the last decade, email has always been faster and more robust than text messages, except that cell phones had issues handling them. Text messages are an unsustainable hack onto the system. Once LTE becomes the norm and everyone uses smartphones, email will likely win over text again.</p>
<p>I used a corded telephone until I was 12. I still do not have any type of cellphone or music player, let alone a smartphone. I have an analog wristwatch. I do not watch television. E-mail is now my only form of communication online (with non-strangers, unlike this forum). I only listen to classical music. I know cursive (but hate using it, I only print).
Oh, and I just turned 16.
I do feel that the older generation stereotypes mine excessively. I know many people my age who are just like me. We are not all bubblegum chewing, texting addicted cyborg-teens.</p>
<p>I like writing in cursive. I don’t use it normally, but I can because they forced us to learn it in elementary school…seriously, every single “final draft” of every paper HAD to be in script, so it’s practically ingrained into my brain.</p>
<p>And I do wear a wristwatch, but it’s only for timing purposes (when I’m doing athletic training/fitness tests). Plus, my family had a corded phone until I was around 12 or 13, when it finally broke and we got a cordless phone. And I love email…especially since I had dial-up internet until I was 13, so I never used it before high school. </p>
<p>I also feel like older generations stereotype us excessively. However, one thing that I didn’t see in the article was that our generation in general is not only more technologically-savvy, but also more competent at technology. Although I’m not exactly as “modern” as the article would suggest, I find that technology is almost intuitive for me. Example: for part of an internship I did this spring, I had to help redesign a website that was using a new server. I figured out how to explore it in about 10 minutes - it was pretty simple - but I had to show my adult internship mentors two or three times, and some of them had to take notes. It’s the same with my parents - I fix their computers when they won’t print, won’t go online, etc. The thing is, for a kid of my age, I kind of suck at computers - I’m forever freezing them and I have no idea how to do any of the web programming, etc. of a lot of my peers. But it comes so much more intuitively to me, and to other people of this generation, that I feel a distinct difference. I think it’s a positive difference, too.</p>
<p>As a Class of ‘13ers, the first time I had internet was when I was 13 years old (roughly around 8th grade). Good ol’ 56 kbps. It was also the first time, I had a land line since my family relied on 1 or 2 cellphones for the whole family. Two years later, we finally upgraded to 768 kbps dsl. Then a year later, I was gifted my first cellphone during my junior year. Just a month ago, we doubled the internet speed to 1.5 mbps. We’re slowly crawling along the technological trend. </p>
<p>I assume the students believe e-mail is slow because of the response time. They can send the e-mail to the recipient in a split second. But it’s “slow” when the recipient feels like replying back hours or days later.</p>
<p>I just started up a facebook account, and received an ipod for the first time (came with laptop). I always wear a watch and check my three separate email addresses a couple times a day. Also, I write all of my class notes in cursive. No smart phone for me either, but the ipod gets Wifi, which is nice.</p>
<p>You tend to use email a hell of a lot more in college compared to high school.</p>