In a world of e-mails, text messages and Twitter, has pen n’ paper lost popularity?
A recent Globe and Mail article reports that “a survey earlier this year found that the average person goes for 41 days without writing by hand, while a third of the population goes six months without doing so. More astonishingly, a separate survey showed a third of teenage girls and half of teenage boys have never written a letter.”
Do you stay in touch the traditional way or do you believe e-mailing Christmas letters to your friends and family is just the same as sending handwritten ones in the mail?
Seeing family pictures online isn’t the same as receiving one in the mail that you can put in a frame on your desk. Getting something in the mail that doesn’t require payment, isn’t trying to sell something, and that brings news from loved ones is such a joy! I love both sending and receiving letters in the mail.