Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting. Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13.
Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email. Send a text message instead. According to a new survey from a survey from eROI, which looked at a sample of 283 high school and college students from 29 states here in the U.S., one quarter of students got their first email address so they could shop online. For students, eMail already is outdated. INstant messaging library facility.