I was thinking, just a day or two ago, about how my email habits have changed. I still love email. Still love sending it and getting it, but only send out a couple a week and only get a couple per week back. Friendly emails I mean. I probably have a dozen or two related to work and about half a dozen related to class, but that is not the same. Around 2000-2001, email was how I communicated with the world, for better or worse. I would regularly send out emails that had 5-10 paragraphs, sometimes longer, and would send about four or five emails a day of only a paragraph or two. I had a half-dozen friends of the email variety, and probably another doze more casual but still occasionally active acquaintances. Now, I have only about three people I email, one of which is my wife. The rest of my friends I keep up with in various ways. A small handful face-to-face. Some through Twitter. Some (and some good ones) through blogs. A couple essentially entirely through chat. I don't have Facebook anymore, or Myspace or anything like that, so I miss out on that style of interaction. Part of me wants to start back up the email game, but I know that if I did, the couple of primary email friends would continue to email me but the rest wouldn't. I would have to keep prodding them.
I guess we have somewhat moved on, as a society, from longer and more thoughtful communication, and have gravitated to shorter and quicker. I even text my mom more than I talk to her, now. We used to send letters to one another and have long phone calls once a week. Not even that is the same.
I guess we have somewhat moved on, as a society, from longer and more thoughtful communication, and have gravitated to shorter and quicker. I even text my mom more than I talk to her, now. We used to send letters to one another and have long phone calls once a week. Not even that is the same.
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