Posted on 07/03/2007 8:45:42 AM PDT by neverdem
Stage One: Infatuation
I just got e-mail! I can’t believe it! It’s so great! Here’s my handle. Write me! Who said letter writing was dead? Were they ever wrong! I’m writing letters like crazy for the first time in years. I come home and ignore all my loved ones and go straight to the computer to make contact with total strangers. And how great is AOL? It’s so easy. It’s so friendly. It’s a community. Wheeeee! I’ve got mail!
Stage Two: Clarification
O.K., I’m starting to understand — e-mail isn’t letter-writing at all, it’s something else entirely. It was just invented, it was just born and overnight it turns out to have a form and a set of rules and a language all its own. Not since the printing press. Not since television. It’s revolutionary. It’s life-altering. It’s shorthand. Cut to the chase. Get to the point.
And it saves so much time. It takes five seconds to accomplish in an e-mail message something that takes five minutes on the telephone. The phone requires you to converse, to say things like hello and goodbye, to pretend to some semblance of interest in the person on the other end of the line. Worst of all, the phone occasionally forces you to make actual plans with the people you talk to — to suggest lunch or dinner — even if you have no desire whatsoever to see them. No danger of that with e-mail.
E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an Instant Message from someone I almost know.
Stage Three...
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Boy Nora, you may be a well known writer but STFU about email. I’m sure most of your buddies just filter you spewings into the trash anyway.
Would someone please tell that woman about spam filters?
I have done nothing to deserve any of this:
The Democratic National Committee needs you.
A message from Hillary Clinton.
LOL!
Didn’t this dope, ex-wife of Carl Bernstein, write the movie “You’ve Got Mail”??
You're also correct that she is a dope!
LOL
You can email a question to a business that will answer when they get time. On the phone they may just blow you off because they are busy.
How many political junkies wrote their elected Representatives as much before email?
What kills me is some of the guys at my sportsman's club are always looking for information on things, but when you tell them you’ll look it up and email it to them they say they never read their email.
That always solves the mystery of why they are so ignorant of everything.
“With email you have Spam guard and blocker what more could you want..LOL!”
Spell check? Cut/paste? Hotlinks?...
Email is great after all your friends get over the idea that anyone actually reads all those bad jokes they send.
Delete is your friend.
Lame attempt to emulate Larry Miller’s “Five Stages of Drinking.”
“Six if you live in a trailer park.”
Larry is funny.
And conservative.
Add three inches to the length of your penis. The Democratic National Committee needs you.
LOL! Interesting that she decided to put that together in that order. Another confirmation of Ann Coulter's claim that she has bigger balls than most liberal men, affirmed inadvertently by the NY Slimes.
Call me.
LOL (snicker)
You are right!I just find it faster and easier to contact people by email..Don’t have to wait to get the answer,wait very long anyway..
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