Email - is it making us love or resent people more?

Question

Before everyone had email, people used to treasure their well-written letters to each other. Now we just shoot out crazed text fragments which nobody ten years ago would have thought worthy of sending out to someone else. I'm not lamenting that, as that's simply how our culture has changed - but my point is that email allows us to reveal more about ourselves than letters ever did, and that we therefore gain a lot of insights into other people's personalities whose essence we may or may not enjoy. Do you get the feeling that email-exchange has turned you into more of a people-lover, or more of a people-resenter?

Answer 1

Email is cool especially when you have family scattered allover the world like i do. But i do sometimes get annoyed whenever i just get forwarded messages that aren't even real. You know those emails where they say you HAVE to forward this email or you get bad luck?! You can't really win.

Answer 2

I love email! My family(aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins are on the west coast and I am on the east coast. Plus my parents travel from SC to FL several times a year. I can keep up with their travels. A hand written letter is a very nice treasure but I love my computer. You can sit down any time of day or night send it right then and get an instant response. (but I still love going to the mailbox and getting a letter addressed to me) But it is true, people are more open and do give out a lot more information in email and blogs.

Answer 3

Email is a great way to stay in touch with people. Sure, sometimes our messages are little more than "crazed text fragments", but a lot of them aren't. And either way, we're keeping in touch with people, which is a good thing.

Answer 4

I enjoy having email. I wish that the people I care about used it more.

Answer 5

I like my email. I can keep in touch with people I'm close to on a daily basis --and it's free!!