Editing Email (section)

===Personal use===

====Personal computer====
Many users access their personal emails from friends and family members using a [[personal computer]] in their house or apartment.

====Mobile====
Email has become used on [[smartphone]]s and on all types of computers. Mobile "apps" for email increase accessibility to the medium for users who are out of their homes. While in the earliest years of email, users could only access email on desktop computers, in the 2010s, it is possible for users to check their email when they are away from home, whether they are across town or across the world. Alerts can also be sent to the smartphone or other devices to notify them immediately of new messages. This has given email the ability to be used for more frequent communication between users and allowed them to check their email and write messages throughout the day. {{As of|2011}}, there were approximately 1.4 billion email users worldwide and 50 billion non-spam emails that were sent daily.<ref name="Barnett 2011 p. 245">{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=Derek |last2=Smith |first2=Marc A. |last3=Heer |first3=Jeffrey |author-link3=Jeffrey Heer |chapter=E-Mail |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCfrCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA245 |editor1-last=Barnett |editor1-first=George A |title=Encyclopedia of social networks |publisher=Sage |location=Thousand Oaks, Calif |year=2011 |isbn=9781412994170 |page=245 |oclc=959670912}}</ref>

Individuals often check emails on smartphones for both personal and work-related messages. It was found that US adults check their email more than they browse the web or check their [[Facebook]] accounts, making email the most popular activity for users to do on their smartphones. 78% of the respondents in the study revealed that they check their email on their phone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://marketingland.com/smartphone-activities-study-email-web-facebook-37954|title=Email Is Top Activity On Smartphones, Ahead Of Web Browsing & Facebook [Study]|date=28 March 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429184034/https://marketingland.com/smartphone-activities-study-email-web-facebook-37954|archive-date=29 April 2014}}</ref> It was also found that 30% of consumers use only their smartphone to check their email, and 91% were likely to check their email at least once per day on their smartphone. However, the percentage of consumers using email on a smartphone ranges and differs dramatically across different countries. For example, in comparison to 75% of those consumers in the US who used it, only 17% in India did.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emailmonday.com/mobile-email-usage-statistics|title=The ultimate mobile email statistics overview|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711160527/https://www.emailmonday.com/mobile-email-usage-statistics|archive-date=2014-07-11}}</ref>

====Declining use among young people====
{{as of|2010}}, the number of Americans visiting email web sites had fallen 6 percent after peaking in November 2009. For persons 12 to 17, the number was down 18 percent. Young people preferred [[instant messaging]], [[texting]] and [[social media]]. Technology writer Matt Richtel said in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that email was like the [[VCR]], [[vinyl record]]s and [[Still camera|film cameras]]—no longer cool and something older people do.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/technology/21email.html |url-access=subscription |title=E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover|last=Richtel|first=Matt|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2010-12-20|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405033137/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/technology/21email.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/why-are-young-people-abandoning-email/339329/ |url-access=subscription |title=Why Are Young People Abandoning Email?|last=Gustini|first=Ray|work=[[The Atlantic]]|date=2010-12-21|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405024822/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/why-are-young-people-abandoning-email/339329/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A 2015 survey of [[Android (operating system)|Android]] users showed that persons 13 to 24 used messaging [[Mobile app|app]]s 3.5 times as much as those over 45, and were far less likely to use email.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/|title=Email is dying among mobile's youngest users|last=Perez|first=Sarah|work=TechCrunch |date=2016-03-24|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405025214/https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/|url-status=live}}</ref>