Is email not cool anymore???

Last weekend we held a surprise birthday party for my 16 year old. Being a "tech" guy....I use www.evite.com for different occasions. I "thought" it was really cool. It allows you to make an invitation and then send the invitation to all your friends through email. It allows the invitees to RSVP on line. It's really an easy way to keep track of all the people you invite. I guess in the teen crowd....I was wrong!

So we send out about 40 invitations through email......there was the first issue....getting email addresses for 16 year olds. I guess that should of been my first clue......it took a bit of searching and working with a few of her friends. Now we were doing this when we were on the H.O.W. tour....so we are sneaking around trying to get this done without Taylor seeing us. After a week....only one person responds.....only a handful have even opened the email (another great feature of the evite system) So we wait another week....we are doing no better. When we get home...Denise starts to make calls.....almost all the kids called said they don't check their emails!!!!! Don't check your email???? You're kidding right? I have my email automatically go to my cell phone....never know when someone needs a cable!

2 other issues happened....a friend of my girls will be going to college in the fall. She approaches me and asks if I can break the Foley rule and allow the girls to have a facebook page. I ask her why......she tells me that she wants to keep in touch with them./ When I ask her why she doesn't just email them....."you're kidding right? email? that's so blase'" I then tell this story to Taylor and her buddy Sara....and Sara pipes in and tells me that Email is no fun!!

OK I never thought email was fun...I use it as a communications tool...period

Social networking is new to me....I really don't get it....now I sound old. Email.....is for old people???is that what the teens are saying....

I guess I am not so cool after all.