The lost art of social correspondence

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We should start a pen pal program. :smile: I love receiving cards/letters!!!!

I have considered the creation of a pen pal program on the web. Its quite a challenge due to the lack of individual privacy and the amount of fake people throughout the net and the world.

The problem with programs that I am a part of is the solicitation of marriage and money. When in most cases people are just looking for friendships. The other problem I run into is that most people that are looking for correspondence are incarcerated and this brings up a level of concern in general.

I too love cards and letters.
 
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Pen pal? Isn't that a prisoner exchange program?:cool:

Ha That is what it has become.

I have a pen pal in Callicoon NY. She and I have become good friends and i always visit her when I'm near the area. I live in Jersey City.

I hope to one day meet one of my pen pals. We started writing when he & his wife were in PA but they have moved to GA so its closer. We have been writing for a 4 years or more.
 

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An email is instantly forgettable, a letter is something you keep and can look back on

So true. It has often been observed that in the future this era will be the forgotten generation because so much present-day communication is ephemeral. There will be no written record of the millions (billions?) of texts between people, same with emails, too. And then there's the whole thing with digital imagery. One hard drive crash and the record of you and your family's existence is gone. :frown1: True, some may have printed a very tiny percentage of their digital photos, but on what kind of paper? If you printed it from your desktop inkjet printer, good luck with that print lasting more than a few years at most.

Future generations will not have the stack of love letters between mom and dad or grandma and grandpa whilst they were courting tied neatly in a stack, or pix of all the aunties and uncles at baby whozis' christening party. It's all ones and zeroes that will be probably inaccessible in the future. How romantic. :tongue:
 
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So true. It has often been observed that in the future this era will be the forgotten generation because so much present-day communication is ephemeral. There will be no written record of the millions (billions?) of texts between people, same with emails, too. And then there's the whole thing with digital imagery. One hard drive crash and the record of you and your family's existence is gone. :frown1: True, some may have printed a very tiny percentage of their digital photos, but on what kind of paper? If you printed it from your desktop inkjet printer, good luck with that print lasting more than a few years at most.

Future generations will not have the stack of love letters between mom and dad or grandma and grandpa whilst they were courting tied neatly in a stack, or pix of all the aunties and uncles at baby whozis' christening party. It's all ones and zeroes that will be probably inaccessible in the future. How romantic. :tongue:



I can not agree more. The written word is a glimpse into the past.
An example is the 'forever' stamp I like the idea its great but looking back 30 yrs from now how will we know of the economic difficulties of the country, the businesses, and the people. Look back now you can tell how life was a bit different when you could send a letter for 25 cents.