After a month of having students send me email to turn in assignments (and trying to figure out which student goes with which crazy email name), I got curious about the relative market share of various free email services. Of the 116 freshmen, 32 sophomores, and 31 seniors that I have, it looks like Yahoo is the clear winner, and there isn’t really much meaningful variation across those four years of age difference:
This is interesting, because I feel like my generation (or maybe just my particular set of nerdy friends) has converged on GMail as our top choice on functionality and features. I wonder how this compares to national trends in other age groups and demographics, and also what marketing efforts Yahoo is making to grab these younger users.
Posted by davee on October 1, 2007 at 10:01 am
kittymail.com? how cute!
Posted by justanothersnarkystudentblog on October 1, 2007 at 11:26 am
That’s an accurate reflection of my nerdy friends as well. From what I’ve noticed, the people who use their email (for more than just sending in assignments) vastly prefer gmail — better labeling, folders, and, the holy grail, the excellent search bar. Then again, it could just be that gmail has gmail chat — and we all know what a good time-waster that can be.