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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The real irony is, most younger people aren't entirely sure how e-mail works either.

True, but for different reasons (the medium becoming less relevant to colloquial interactions vs. not having caught up to the new developments of 30 years ago).

I will say, though, that I'm really amused by the number of people in their 40's and 50's that I work with that format their Teams messages like emails, with a greeting, line break, body, line break, and pseudo-signature. They break from that once it gets into an actual conversation, but cold calls like that are kind of funny because I can tell that they're having trouble adapting to using something other than email to initiate contact with people.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I mean, most people don't know how email works. Basic networking stuff isn't too tough to wrap your head around but most people just never have to learn it.

The underlying mechanisms, no, but most people at least understand how to use it.