College Ushers In Digital Age; Stops Giving Out Email
Posted on November 20, 2008
Filed Under Culture, Techno-file | By Nikki Martinez
Wow, I feel old. The New York Times reports that Boston College will not give out school e-mail addresses to newly-enrolled students, since so many students are showing up to school with their own pre-existing digital addresses. But don’t worry, incoming BC freshmen–your dreams of a university account of your very own aren’t completely dashed. BC will still assign bc.edu addresses, but instead of setting up a separate inbox and password, all mail will be forwarded to already existing accounts like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. (jk, who uses Hotmail?)
The school figures that, at this day and age, students are so digitally savvy that they don’t need another account. (Not to mention they’ll save a buck or two in IT costs.) Touche, BC. Could this be the dawn of a new era? Only time will tell. But for now I’m dying to see what peeps at Twitter are saying about this!
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Wait, people still use Yahoo? What?
(jk, who uses Hotmail?)
I do. I’ve used the same account for 7 years now. And while Hotmail may not have the same streamlined interface that Gmail does, guess what? It’s still a damn fine client. Bashing Hotmail for absolutely no reason immediately earns you a spot on my “hated blogs” list. Congratulations.