Editing Email (section)

====Declining use among young people====
{{as of|2010}}, the number of Americans visiting email web sites had fallen 6 percent after peaking in November 2009. For persons 12 to 17, the number was down 18 percent. Young people preferred [[instant messaging]], [[texting]] and [[social media]]. Technology writer Matt Richtel said in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that email was like the [[VCR]], [[vinyl record]]s and [[Still camera|film cameras]]—no longer cool and something older people do.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/technology/21email.html |url-access=subscription |title=E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover|last=Richtel|first=Matt|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2010-12-20|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405033137/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/technology/21email.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/why-are-young-people-abandoning-email/339329/ |url-access=subscription |title=Why Are Young People Abandoning Email?|last=Gustini|first=Ray|work=[[The Atlantic]]|date=2010-12-21|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405024822/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/why-are-young-people-abandoning-email/339329/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A 2015 survey of [[Android (operating system)|Android]] users showed that persons 13 to 24 used messaging [[Mobile app|app]]s 3.5 times as much as those over 45, and were far less likely to use email.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/|title=Email is dying among mobile's youngest users|last=Perez|first=Sarah|work=TechCrunch |date=2016-03-24|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405025214/https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/|url-status=live}}</ref>