Oddbean new post about login | logout @3967703f Reminds me of this quote by #AndyRooney on #60Minutes years ago… "We have advanced to the point where the means we use to communicate are more elegant and important than what we have to say." #communication #networks #socialmedia
@242b83c8 I remember him well. Always loved his segment.
@242b83c8 @3967703f My Communication Preferences, in order: 1. Old school letter typed with a typewriter. 2. Handwritten letter / Postcard 3. Other types of letters delivered via USPS 4. Email 5. SMS 6. Phone call 7. Showing up at my front door.
@e9dfee67 I haven't gotten a hand written letter in decades. They were so great! @242b83c8
@3967703f @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 Chronic lateness inspired me to get engraved stationary to apologize in my thank-yous to everyone at my first professional gig... So glad I did Lost the dye though now I have to go get a new one if I want to reup I have like... 20 left? Every once in a while I'll make 100 copies of one
@e59df6f1 😃 I had some back in the day as well. I loved writing a good letter. Now, my handwriting sucks because I never write anything. I wrote some condolence cards last week and they were atrocious. @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 I wrote so many letters when I was young. Nothing could compare to the thrill of getting a letter from a friend or SO. It’s nice to get an email from a long lost friend, but opening the mailbox to find a handwritten letter had a special intimacy. Miss that!
@1336114a Me too. I miss it. I loved looking at stamps from different countries too. That was so cool! @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 Y'all realize that talk like that leads to penpals, right?
@0e7dc019 😃 @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 I know cursive and I fear not its use!
@0e7dc019 I've been taking notes studying stuff for my new job. omg. I'm writing half cursive, half script in a not good way! I want to keep practicing, because this is not good.@1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 Cursive is a dying art. There's just no pressing need for it, anymore. I noticed that in a very crude way when going over some family bullshit. Documents would get transited to digitized whenever I touched them. The originals were all in cursive. Most under 40s can't read that at all. Under 20s think cursive is just old timey bullshit. It used to be a whole world, though.
@0e7dc019 It certainly did. My mom won awards in school. Penmanship was a big deal. I read that people looking at old documents couldn't read those in cursive anymore. @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8
@3967703f @0e7dc019 @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 In young people's defense, plenty of them are interested in cursive and/or penmanship generally! Schools, however, have made the decision on whether it's important or not for them, and it has to become a hobby if they want to learn it. And that narrows the window of participation considerably.
@0e7dc019 @3967703f @1336114a @e59df6f1 @e9dfee67 @242b83c8 I used to do calligraphy as a hobby. Now I type almost everything except the occasional check. I no longer carry a pen.