I weep for the youth.

If students aren’t in the habit of sifting through their clogged accounts, they could be missing looming deadlines, to-do notices to complete their applications and announcements about financial aid, scholarships and awards.

“There has to be things that are falling through the cracks,” said Carly Oishi, director of financial capability for Ladder Up, a Chicago organization that provides financial advice. “If you’re applying to 10, 15, 20 schools, there’s no way that you’re going to get everything in, review every single thing, sign every single thing on time. There’s probably money being missed out on, applicants not being admitted, that kind of thing.”

Fitzgerald experienced that. She said she missed a deadline to apply for a scholarship because she did not see the email in time. It took several emails for her to realize that she’d been accepted into one of her top schools, Loyola University Chicago.

“I get distracted and I keep pressing delete, delete, delete,” Fitzgerald said. “Just last week, I got an email about financial aid and I deleted it because I wasn’t paying attention. But my mom also gets the emails and she asked me about it.”

This dynamic can be confounding for adults because teenagers typically are nimble with technology. But some say email aversion has less to do with mastering the mechanics of it and more to do with learning executive functioning skills they need for college and beyond.

Can The Wisemen just at a "These Kids Today With Their Tik Toks and Their Snap Chats" section, so we can keep all this stuff together?

Why is Robot Wilfred Brimley in Trump's foyer?

I think that's Burl Ives
but the same question applies.

And on the other end of the spectrum, I work with old farts who like to say "I'm old school, I don't use email" like that's an acceptable excuse in 2019 for missing important work emails.

So I have an unpopular opinion about this:

Email sucks and needs to be replaced. It served its purpose for a long time and served it well, but there are better platforms now and corporate/school/government communication models need to catch up.

Forward looking companies have already replaced email with slack and Yammer. There are other programs on the way/in beta phase. I sympathize with high school kids and younger because their world just doesn't include email, so maybe for us an example would be like being forced to use a fax machine to communicate when I've been using email my whole life. I imagine that's what it feels like for them - they communicate using far more efficient platforms so why are they forced to master dinosaur technology when they currently use much better tech.

https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/its-20 ... ction.html

I signed up for NextDoor earlier this year. It's basically facebook, but you only get to see people who post stuff from your area. That place is littered with old farts who have zero concept of how the internet or computers. Comments are made completely off-topic, people post about how they can't find their previous post, and other insane ramblings. It's like Bigfan created a couple hundred mults in my neighborhood.

And on the other end of the spectrum, I work with old farts who like to say "I'm old school, I don't use email" like that's an acceptable excuse in 2019 for missing important work emails.

I didn't write or mail letters in high school but I still found a way to check the mail when I was applying for colleges.

I didn't write or mail letters in high school but I still found a way to check the mail when I was applying for colleges.

Email (virtual) is not the same as postage mail (physical). Not an apples to apples comparison.

her high school life is so fucking busy she cant be bothered to sift through emails once a night for 10 minutes? seriously? god help me if my kids pull this crap

Right. All due respect vegan but that's a load of horseshit. You're trying to make it sound like checking your email is some arduous task.

I signed up for NextDoor earlier this year. It's basically facebook, but you only get to see people who post stuff from your area. That place is littered with old farts who have zero concept of how the internet or computers. Comments are made completely off-topic, people post about how they can't find their previous post, and other insane ramblings. It's like Bigfan created a couple hundred mults in my neighborhood.

If you're not on NextDoor, I would highly recommend it. It's sometimes more entertaining than this message board.

I'm not saying that it's hard to check email but at the very least there's a fair amount of behavior change the HS'ers have to go through to incorporate email into their day-to-day, and that because comms has so radically changed since the time we all were in HS - changed to a degree where email isn't even a thing for them - we should cut them some slack. Email is basically the fax machine of the 2010s.

See, I find this a ridiculous thing to say, particularly the underlined part. What you posted is simply wrong. The only behavior they need to change is to check email occasionally, like maybe once a day. This is not a significant behavior change, nor should any slack be given to a teenager too lazy to do it for something as important as college admissions.

Also, as delany mentioned, email has specific purposes still that Slack can't cover. It's a pretty irresponsible business practice to send important documents and things of that nature just through Slack and not email.