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I have been using email for 30+ years and love it. It has been my main method of staying in touch with family and friends.
But I am finding that a lot of my friends rarely use email any more and instead do everything on Facebook. I am not a Facebook fan myself - not intimate enough for me I guess. But I find that I am losing touch with people because of this and either have to cave into FB or I don't know what.
Anyone else in this dilemma? What are you doing about it?
...Anyone else in this dilemma? What are you doing about it?
I have been using email since it began. I write long personal emails. You don't want to email, maybe I'll catch your obit.
FB? I am not on FB, but I have seen the pages of some of my putative cousins who are. These are people who should never be using FB. Afterward I deleted them from the family tree on Ancestry.com. It has to be a tissue of lies that such people are related to me.
I have been using email for 30+ years and love it. It has been my main method of staying in touch with family and friends.
But I am finding that a lot of my friends rarely use email any more and instead do everything on Facebook. I am not a Facebook fan myself - not intimate enough for me I guess. But I find that I am losing touch with people because of this and either have to cave into FB or I don't know what.
Anyone else in this dilemma? What are you doing about it?
You bet! There's NOTHING wrong with email whatsoever! I have two different accounts and check them frequently, but there's NO way in hell I will stoop to a fakebook account. The few friends I have can either call, or email me and know that my social butterflies were killed by me years ago.
I use e-mail all the time. But in this last year I also use FB to keep up with friendss and family.I do not text or twitter tho. and only use FB every once in awhile to respond. I tend to telephone more still.
I always use email for my communication, but opened a FB account strictly as a favor to my relatives and friends. They post pics of their kids, pets, vacations etc on FB and always emailed them to me separately, but now my FB account saves them time and effort - it's a win-win situation for all of us.
When registering, I used an alias (for the sake of global privacy) and I don't list personal info - workplaces, birthplace, schools attended... that sort of stuff. I emailed my relatives and friends with the name of my chosen alias, and they included it on their 'allow access' list so I can pop in and check up on the pics when I get a chance. They all know that I'll never post anything on FB or use it as a communication base, and they're totally ok with that. Makes me feel like a creepy lurker sometimes though, lol.
I have been using email for 30+ years and love it. It has been my main method of staying in touch with family and friends.
But I am finding that a lot of my friends rarely use email any more and instead do everything on Facebook. I am not a Facebook fan myself - not intimate enough for me I guess. But I find that I am losing touch with people because of this and either have to cave into FB or I don't know what.
Anyone else in this dilemma? What are you doing about it?
There's nothing wrong with using email. But just like anything else, it only makes sense to use email when the person on the other end uses email as well. For work-related communication, there's a good chance that email is the preferred method of communication outside of picking up the phone.
However, when you change the context to social communication, email is used less and less than in the past. Communication has shifted to texting, facebook, skype, etc. Does it still make sense to use email for these communications? Sure... many times it does. But if friends have all moved on from email to facebook... then don't expect the same quality of conversation in email that you might have in the past.
I'll stick with old school communication. Forming sentences using real words to send an email or talking on a phone still works for me.
But you use old school communication like handwriting a letter or visiting in person? I do think those are lost arts. Glad to see some people, like yourself, keep those old school arts alive.
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