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Oct. 14th, 2001 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnAnthrax to Kill Snail Mail and in other news zippers to kill buttons.
People can be so stupid. Snail mail is more intimate than e-mail. Can you spray an e-mail with perfume, touch an e-mail, use different papers that feel different, tear open an envelope and hear the sound of crinkling and ripping paper? Of course not. People communicate with mail and when people communicate they generally want to be sincere and a useful way to communicate sincerity is with intimacy. Maybe the Anthrax scare will increase personal e-mail use for a while but it's just myopic to think it'll last. I really thought this bullshit ended in the 90s. Ya know, that new inferior technology will replace old superior technology just because it's newer.
People can be so stupid. Snail mail is more intimate than e-mail. Can you spray an e-mail with perfume, touch an e-mail, use different papers that feel different, tear open an envelope and hear the sound of crinkling and ripping paper? Of course not. People communicate with mail and when people communicate they generally want to be sincere and a useful way to communicate sincerity is with intimacy. Maybe the Anthrax scare will increase personal e-mail use for a while but it's just myopic to think it'll last. I really thought this bullshit ended in the 90s. Ya know, that new inferior technology will replace old superior technology just because it's newer.
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Date: 2001-10-14 08:24 pm (UTC)My family lives on snail mail.
I just hope they don't get sick from it.
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Date: 2001-10-15 03:20 am (UTC)And mostly, kneejerk reactions are extreme. If the person that expressed the opinion had stopped for a moment to think about whether people would really abandon the postal service just because of an anthrax scare, they'd realise how kneejerk it was.
E-mail is a complementary technology to the postal service. Not competing, complementary. They need to work together well - and they do. To deny that the postal service is more appropriate for loads of communication is ridiculous.