Compare that to many high school kids in my wife's yearbook class that can't utilize dropbox because they don't know what an email address is.
I can't fault a high-school kid for finding e-mail irrelevant to their existence. Maybe e-mail really is broken... I'm lookin' at you, Yahoo & Hotmail!
E-Mail really is out dated, I only use it to communicate with my parents and businesses. I rarly send an E-Mail to my friends. Whatsapp, Facebook and the like are way better at everything.
The thread reminds me off a phone conversation with my Ex-girlfriend, after she started college. She got an PDF from one of the profs and could not open it, because she didn't have Acrobat Reader. So I told her to download it. "How do I do that?" I ended up walking her through the whole process of finding it on the adobe website, installing it:
"This box says: 'Do you really want to...'"
"Whatever, click yes"
"But you don't know what it says, I haven't read it all to you"
"Yeah just click next"
"Do you know all the boxes from the top of your head?"
She couldn't grasp that you just always click 'Yes' or 'Next' or 'Ok' and end up with a fine installation, whatever the program
Later on she complained that she had learn all this computer stuff all the time instead of actually studying. We are talking about basic stuff, like copying a file to a flash drive or opening a CD, nothing advanced like setting up a WiFi. I feel like someone saying: "But I'm an engineer, why should I know how to operator an oven, ovens are for cooks."
Wait, what? Doesn't virtually every single website on earth require an email to signup? Or do they get their accounts created by somebody else?
Why would one want to sign up for a website?