Posted by Roy
on 1/14/2009, 3:57 pm
Message modified by board administrator 1/14/2009, 4:17 pm
A few months back, in the hope of getting more traffic on this board, I changed it from a '60s Rock Trivia Board to a Retrospectives Forum.
The idea bombed, as I feared it might, but for people who still post here (thanks, all of you--where is Savoyfan???) I am leaving it up and keeping it the way it is for anyone who wants to share nostalgic thoughts. And needless to say, '60s rock trivia is still more than welcome.
I'm fortunate enough to have been around when writing letters was still not just an "art" or a form of "courtesy," it was actually a passion with many people. I always got excited when there was a letter for me from a friend or a relative. I learned from a children's book we had read to us in grade school that the best way to receive letters was to write them to others. Kind of a variation of the adage "to have a friend, be a friend."
And it did work out, more often than not. I have a cousin five years my senior who wrote me some great letters which I still wish I had. One was about prehistoric birds, most of which I didn't know existed, and my third-grade class was studying about dinosaurs at the time.
This really dwindled down after many years. I quit writing letters myself ultimately, I was so disenfranchised.
I remember how excited I got when I found out about email. I optimistically thought that the art of correspondence was making a comeback.
In some ways it did, but many people who get online these days seem to prefer either playing cyber-games or adding attachments or photos to their My Space pages. People who know me well know how passionately I dislike chain letters (more commonly known as "Forwards"--especially the ones that tell you to send it to a million people in 30 seconds or your house will blow up and your dog will speak Russian. My chief gripe is that, to me at least, they are cold, impersonal and unoriginal. And don't get me started on hackers, spammers and phishers, or as I call them collectively, cyber-scum (Offense intended for people who do it!).
I know people get busy, but there is so much to be said for many old-time traditions. Email just isn't utilized like it could/should be. When I first got involved with cyber space almost ten years ago, I would get inundated daily with emails. I continue to write them, but it seems I'm lucky these days if I even get one a day.
-Roy
-Roy
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