IMessage sends text messages to iPods

I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1 and I have a friend with an iPod Touch and he uses iMessage.  I like to send him pictures through iMessage, since he can't receive them over the phone.  When I go into the photos app, select the message sharing method, type his email in and send, if I go Into the messages app, it will say that it sent as a text message instead of an iMessage.  This is annoying, because obviously you can't send text messages to iPods.   Is this a bug, or is there way to disable this or prevented from sending as a text message?

Two things I can suggest for you to try - sorry if you have already tried
Turn iMessage in settings off - wait a while and turn it back on
Sign out of iCloud with your Apple ID - wait a bit and then sign in again
See if any of that helps

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