2007-03-07 10:06:38 · 11 answers · asked by blubonnet52 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Telephone and email. There's really no need any more.
2007-03-07 10:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Skyhawk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
email makes letter writing a rare event for this generation. The older folks still write cause they grew up with that. Now people are in a rush, have little connection with other people outside their immediate circle, and find writing and posting a letter to be a hassle. I mean you have to get envelopes, writing paper, actually write coherently, get stamps, and then walk/drive to a place where the postal carrier will pick up the letter. You realize then that it'll be 3-5 days before the person you wrote actually can read your thoughts. You repeat the same process to get a letter back. With email, you write, don't care about the spelling (BTW :)), and post. Seconds later it can be read and responded to.
2007-03-07 11:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by fenhongjiatu1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the days of Jane Ayre a whole revolution has taken place in letter writing. 1. The high cost of postage. 2. The invention of the telegraph. 3 The invention of the telephone. 4, The invention of teletype machine. 5. The invention of the fax machine. 6. The invention of the PC. 7. People doesn't care any more.
2007-03-07 11:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely e-mail. In today’s world of e-mails and text messages, fewer and fewer people are keeping alive the art of letter-writing (by hand, not with computers).
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
~Goethe
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
~Lord Byron
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.
~Author Unknown
More people should try to keep the art of letter writing alive!
Take care.
2007-03-07 10:16:48 · answer #4 · answered by Mary R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Telephone.
Letter writing declined in the 1960s, long before there was e-mail.
2007-03-07 10:43:57 · answer #5 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ease of e-mailing and phone calls. You can e-mail and get almost an instant response instead of waiting for the mail to deliver....that person finding time to write back and then waiting again for the mail. Not to mention postage stamps.
2007-03-07 10:13:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the cell phone, email , Instant messaging, the telephone.
And the fact that people and technology changes the way we do things.
2007-03-07 10:33:43 · answer #7 · answered by Tom Sawyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Texting, mobile cellular phones, I.M. & email. We want it NOW! Stamps cost, and letters take a long time.
2007-03-07 10:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) prevalence of Internet communication
2) loss of manners and old fashioned values
3) laziness
4) deploring writing skills
5) who's got a stamp?...
2007-03-07 10:10:30 · answer #9 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One word. Email!
2007-03-07 10:09:43 · answer #10 · answered by Curtiss D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋