andrehyg, Divine Mercy

Read an interesting article in WSJ titled “We’re destroying the past”. It’s about how we communicate nowadays via internet using e-mails, skype messages, yahoo messages and we keep no records of them. By the end of the day, when we switch off the computer, all messages are trashed. As for e-mails, periodically, they are trashed too.

I quote, “What’s more, there’s no ceremony to it – no arrival of an airmail letter littered with exotic stamps and postmarks, no careful opening of the envelope, no delicate unfolding of the wispy airmail sheets inside. Now we press a little green button and we chat, and prety much immediately afterward forget whether it was we talked about. As with most internet-based communication, the quality of our exchanges has declined in exact proportion to the growing ease with which we can communicate.”

Further quote, “ I’m not saying this is all bad. It’s wonderful to be able to stay in touch with people we love, quickly and easily. And I’m sure there must be lots of people who still write longhand letters. Some of them must also write long and thougtful emails that aren’t cheapened by the medium. But our generation may be the last that bequeaths treasures in a suitcase, which not only contain words but smell, the feel, the touch of the person writing, and the age they belonged to.”