Thread: Hand written letters

I was talking to some of my students today about methods of communication, these are teenagers who find email to be slow because it is a one person at a time communication. Anyway, I said what about hand written letters. They just looked at me as if I had suggested that people should communicate via smoke signals.

I feel sorry for these students because they may never know the joy of recieving a hand written letter.

The thought that some one has taken the time to pen some thoughts, the physicality of the paper and envelope, and thepersonality that goes into a hand written letter are some of the things that make receiving a letter one of the finer things in life.

I think that many people today would benefit from slowing down and taking the time to pen a letter.

I think prison correspondence is probably the last vestige of the hand written letter tradition. Sadly.

What have you got against smoke signals?

Another lost art of communication is Face-To-Face, I wish all of you guys were within a few hours of me...

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Another lost art of communication is Face-To-Face, I wish all of you guys were within a few hours of me...

same i must admit i must be the last teen on earth that doesent have a facebook. if your my friend then i will talk to you in person. i do text a bit and talk on the phone a bit but i mostly meet up with the verry few face to face friends i have nad we do things. you guys are all friends and if i lved by any of you id gladly hok up and actually do things

My FIL often frequents a storage unit and often "collects" (dumpster dives) there. He found recently a box of old letters from a wife and mother to their husband/son who was fighting in WW2. I read them to my 3 kids and the FIL and my wife. We tried to instill in the children that "this is how it used to be done". A couple times I got choked up reading and sensing the fears of a family and nation. Also in the box were medals, ribbons and miltary paperwork. How someone could throw out family items like that is beyond me. We are dimished with the onset of technology to a degree.

I still write the odd letter, mostly with pen and ink, have always been keen on hand writing, but unfortunately found even my handwriting is deteriorating because of mostly typing on key boards. To keep my hand in I write to people who appreciate a hand written letter. I guess the way things are the new generations coming through may only be able to sight their names at best !!

Originally Posted by HNSB

What have you got against smoke signals?

Here in Bangkok it would be like writing with black ink of black paper.

Originally Posted by ndw76

Here in Bangkok it would be like writing with black ink of black paper.

That polluted hey... sigh.

This is another reason I just bought my first manual typewriter. As much as I love my gadgets, I feel that we've lost something tactile in our communication.

And I love when a guy who calls himself "shooter" wants to meet "face to face". Ominous!