Mail is a wonderful thing.

Send a piece of paper to a friend. Write it by hand it if you're feeling especially nostalgic. Pay almost half a dollar. Lick a stamp. Get an annoying paper cut on your tongue on the flap. Wait one to six days for earliest response.

Mail is really bad for timely conversations, great for cards and such, irreplacable if you endeavor to be a person of letters.

No thanks.

Email is for me. This idea I can get behind. However, it's still weighed down by history. It will never shake the cobwebs of the past.

IM, Video Conferencing, YouTube and Podcasts are preferred... [more]