Well. A really good difference between e-mail and paper mail is that e-mail seems to have developed its own language. I mean I can't 'rite like dis wen im riting a letta 2 grndma, she'd get a headache halfway thru' but with messenger, comments, and just e-mailing friends this language is considered the norm. It's also very addicting. When I got really into messenging and e-mailing I started to use shorthand in my everyday writing, which was extremely annoying to proofread. I guess another difference is that sometimes e-mail addresses serve no other purpose but to be a member of another site. With regular mail its one address for many memberships and many different uses. But you can have an e-mail account for your dell account, a seperate one for your amazon account, one for school, one for your banking account, this list can go on. And each can have a different secret question, a different password, a different emotion behind the name. Whereas a mailing address is where you live. Thats it. Your name, a bunch of numbers, a state city and zip code. I have a teenager address foe_all_da_h8terz_out_dere@.... and a 'when i was a dependent of an active duty military dad' lynettajt.... and a 'dependent of a retired military dad' lynettajg. Each address holds a different meaning to me. So I guess the making of an e-mail address requires more creativity, more emotion, and more emotional attachment than a post address with your name written at the top.
"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." Chinese Proverb
~Netta
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Good point. And the practice has allowed me to text message much faster now that my daughters have embraced that mode of communication.
I completely agree with the "new language" that emailing or texting or instant messagin has. I have gotten so used to it that I do it all the time and then I catch myself doing it when I write papers. I should prolly stop and start writing correctly, but i mean it just takes too much time!
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