My wife's daughter said something that surprised me a few months back. The reason she and her generation do not use email much is because they consider it an old technology that only we older people use. The younger generation mostly does stuff like myspace and text messaging (SMS). She is loath to make a voice call too.

We're used to dealing with email spam as a chronic disease, I guess. If email had kept up with the times, we would have long ago adopted digital signatures as a prolific technology to authenticate senders, and completely eliminated unwanted spam. But alas that never happened, so we continue to chisel crude iconographic scribbles into stone tablets and deliver them via the spam mail transport protocol.