When do kids get their first email?

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 (@ohwoey) 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.

My oldest got a new email address starting in middle school, but texting is king, so …
— just Dale (I do Web Components) (@anotheruiguy) May 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/hankchizljaw/status/992414134913458177

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

For us, age 10
— John Ragozzine (@_ragozzine) May 4, 2018

My 10yr old (in grade 5) has one from school. He does assignments in Google Docs. Contact with friends is done through social apps, though. He doesn’t really “use” email.
— Snook (@snookca) May 4, 2018

I got usable one when I was 11.. 🙂
— Kumar Abhirup (@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 (@KingDogDad) May 4, 2018

They give you a school one sometime around 5th or 6th grade here.
— Brian Reeves (@briancreeves) May 4, 2018

Not sure about personal email, but I work with school districts to provision accounts for students, and they generally have a Google account somewhere around 5th grade.
— WookThisWay (@pmdevs) 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?

Email is good.

When do kids get their first email?

Technology sometimes forces us into it, so they can have important accounts:

Sometimes we do it for the most beautiful reasons:

10-11 Years Old

In School

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Technology sometimes forces us into it, so they can have important accounts:

Sometimes we do it for the most beautiful reasons:

10-11 Years Old

In School

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