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We've lost the romance of letter writing in the digital age. There are a few diehards still trying, but I imagine climbers these days send and email or a WhatsA
by onion2k 3y ago
We've lost the romance of letter writing in the digital age. There are a few diehards still trying, but I imagine climbers these days send and email or a WhatsApp message. It doesn't have the same power unless someone took the physical effort to put pen to paper somehow.
If, for some odd reason, we lose access to the archives of tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook updates, etc, there'll be a giant void in the history of what people did in the past 30 years. It's ironic, because while we have those things we have far more access to what people thought than we've ever had in the past.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI got in to typewriters last summer. They’re pretty neat machines! It’s a single purpose writing machine, and everything you type is immediately put to page. It does interesting things for writing flow and style. It’s also very cute for writing personal notes to friends.
- bowysinclair 3y agoI think its trippy how I ran into your comment on this post. Its Ricky your cousin your dads wifes grandson
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoHaha woww yeah wild to see you here!
- dewey 3y agoI’ve met a friend recently and while shopping he picked up some paper for writing letters. He told me about his tradition of writing one handwritten letter to his partner once a month. I’ve never thought about that before but it sounded like a very nice idea.
- dieselgate 3y agoIt’s trading off longevity for immediacy in my opinion. Was visiting family recently and spent some time looking through old photo albums which was nice.
- jajko 3y agoI am sure this law/rule has even its own name, its just logical result of easiness and overabundance of something, that then becomes worthless. The more effort you put into anything, the more value it has. Plus longevity of digital vs analog, yeah I am not holding my breath some future archaeologists will have much of our digital waste available.
- vineyardmike 3y ago> We've lost the romance of letter writing in the digital age. There are a few diehards still trying, but I bet it's more than you think. My partner still writes correspondences on paper to old college friends, and they write back. We wrote each other letters during early courtship, even after we lived together. Occasionally, I'll still find a nice handwritten letter on my desk. > If, for some odd reason, we lose access to the archives of ... The library of congress used to preserve old tweets. I suspect more than a few individuals have archives of miscellaneous digital content. I know I'm prone to screenshot things (even by mistake) and then just let them pile up in my photos, and occasionally happen upon something I've seen prior. I encourage everyone to save things, even via screenshot.
- t_mann 3y agoI highly doubt that there'll be any void of artifacts from our age. I'd venture a bet that the vast majority of preservation efforts (of present-day live) undertaken in the cumulative history of humankind were/are being done by people alive today. I think it would suit us well to take ourselves a bit less important in the grand picture.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> If, for some odd reason, we lose access to the archives of tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook updates, etc, there'll be a giant void in the history of what people did in the past 30 years. That's also true if we lose access to the archives of old letters.