Email with a sprinkle of spam.

Well messaging or just plain sending some sort of info to someone hasn't really changed all that much since craving little pictographs on stone and passing it along. And as technology developed and gave rise to telegraphs and later telephone networks. And with those networks eventually came the ability to transmit data over the networks, more specifically, a message from one computer to another. And thus began the age of email ( If it feels like i am skipping over a lot of details in between, i am, to get to the focus of the blog. Hes a link to a wiki entry of how email works and more background info... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email ). In a relatively short amount of time, we went from waiting a few days to get a message cross country to almost instantly getting our messages across the country. Well that can have a effect on how you communicate with people. When it takes days to send a letter to someone, and few more days to receive a reply, you tend to put more thought and effort into what and how you write. Letters had more character to them, and seemed more personal. If you got a letter from a girl, the letter might carry with it a bit of her perfume, or how her handwriting changed a bit where she was writing something particularly emotional. A letter can convey underlining context than what the words written literally say. Compare that to a email. A email is rather impersonal in the way of how it looks. You can’t hold a email and you don’t get to see the hand writing. You sure can’t smell your girlfriend’s perfume on email. It’s a rather dry format. Since the time it takes to deliver a email is almost instant, you almost expect a quick reply as well. This takes out the waiting and build up of the event of receiving a letter for some people. However, the connivance and efficiency of email is its strongest selling point, and honestly i probably couldn't get by without it in today’s high speed world. In fact email has become so main streamed that many smart phones now have it as a standard feature. As far as how it’s effected communications among my friends and family, i would have to say we write to each other more than i ever have written them but the emails are brief compared to any letter i wrote. I also tend to not write about anything too deep or important in a email either. Topics better saved for a phone conversation or meeting in person.