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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The sad thing to me after going through that website, is that I came to the realization that the art of letter writing is either dead or close to dead.
It really was an art form, and in the day and age of emails, LOL LMFAO and instant communication through social media that its a skill that is never going to come back.
to me its a big sad.
I received a thank you letter from my nephews for the Christmas Gifts, and I was surprised that instead of sending me email thank you's that my sister had made them sit down pen or pencil in hand and write me a letter telling me about what exciting things were happening in their young lives.
It was actually really awsome.
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What is funny is you are complaining about the medium of communication (email) when we just read a pretty cool 1865 letter over a computer monitor, and enjoyed it. The problem isn't the medium, its the content.... which I attribute to the frequency decreasing the thickness of the content. Since letters "back in the day" were in frequent, it seems to be less of a discussion, whereas I can fire an email to my friends back in Canada and get a reply within minutes, before it was weeks.... so conversations tend to be more light hearted and causal conversation-like.
Of coarse you could put thought into writing like this in your posts, rather then use thousands gif's / reply in movie quotes / attempted witty one-liners et al.... which really aren't discussion at all, in what should be a discussion message board.