While considering whether or not email is a legacy medium, many factors come into play. I do believe that the two pieces for this week tallied with what I have personally experienced or seen happen when young people send out emails. However, I found it interesting that there are so many college students who struggle with email etiquette and the formality of this medium in general because I personally haven’t had many issues recently with this form of communication.

Despite the fact that I was surprised at the number of college students who have never been taught how to “email”, it definitely makes sense. I suppose there isn’t really an opportunity to learn unless one is taught by parents or a past obligation has existed in regards to sending and replying to emails for and from teachers in high school. Because of necessity, I ended up experiencing both and I took advantage of what I learned from each through these opportunities while I was still in high school, which perhaps is something that not all people my age have encountered.

Through my past experience and everything I learned while struggling to use email effectively, I know that is easy to have no idea what the next step is.  This is probably because in the current generation of young people, everything is fast paced. Social media and texting serve as rapid response forms of communicating and interacting with others, while email can take up to  multiple days while one just waits for a response. Therefore, emailing is a legacy media in this sense, but at the same time it doesn’t appear to be so because it is used so expansively, by universities especially.