It might be before they are born. Super popular email services like Gmail are still somewhat of a land-grab for getting names that aren’t saddled with awkward extra characters or numbers. If you can get a good full name, many do.
I made one for my daughter when she was just a baby. Cause I found her full name was available on Gmail. She doesn't know she has one yet though. She's 5 now.
— Joe Williams (@joehwill) May 4, 2018
Technology sometimes forces us into it, so they can have important accounts:
Like Apple or Facebook. Chris Enns needed one for his kid in 5th grade to set up Xbox and other gaming related things.
I had to make one for my son around age 4 for his Apple ID
— Jamie Perkins 👾 (@inorganik) May 4, 2018
Sometimes we do it for the most beautiful reasons:
We made email address for our kids when they were little and we would send them email memories. We’ll give them access to those accounts later.
— Current status: still testing negative (@anotheruiguy) May 4, 2018
My oldest got a new email address starting in middle school, but texting is king, so …
I did the same.. she was 1 month old. We send her messages from time to time with pictures of her.. Hope she enjoys it some years from now!
— Vasco Costa (@vasco_costa) May 4, 2018
10-11 Years Old
This seems like a common age.
My daughter has one and she's 11. I have full access though.
— Andy Foster (@andyfoster405) May 4, 2018
I got usable one when I was 11.. 🙂
— kumar (@kumar_abhirup) May 4, 2018
Facebook requires you to be 13 though, so I bet that’s another common cliff.
In School
5th or 6th grade seems to be the most common right now. For me (born 1980), I think I had one (probably AOL) in high school, but the first one I used heavily was the one they gave me in college. At the end of college I set up chriscoyier@gmail.com and that’s been my main ever since.
I got my first email in middle school. But I’m sure with schools being more tech savvy we will see younger and younger age groups using email.
— emmett naughton (@EmmettNaughton) May 4, 2018
They give you a school one sometime around 5th or 6th grade here.
— Brian Reeves (@briancreeves) May 4, 2018
How old are you now and how old were you when you got your first email? How about your first email that you actually used?
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