Penfriend and Online Friend

That's a really sweet story about your cousin. Personally, I don't see writing emails as any different than writing letters. They can still be heartfelt and interesting. And there are people who meet and fall in love over the internet these days. I think email has been a blessing, its more convenient than regular mail, cheaper, and quicker. It makes it easier to keep up with frends and to make new friendships. So I don't think we've lost anything by going to email, I think its a blessing.

I sometimes miss the days when I was exchanging lots of letters with my snail mail penfriends, now I usually write an email instead. Handwritten letters are a lot more personal than emails, but today many people choose to write emails instead because it is faster and easier. It is still possible to find love through emails though. I know that from experience because my fiance and I met eachother online, and we started by exchanging emails. After a while we met, we became a couple and in a month we are getting married.

there is a saying "more haste less speed", especially for the emotion, i acknowledge the existence of “fall in love at first sight" but for most of us it need time and erperience to acquaint with each other,then it is possible to fall in love eventually. so i consider at least most of the online love are reliable. science gives us speed but the letter typed by the keyboard contains less heartfelt emotion compared with the one comes from your hand.

In a writen letter you can see emotions in there hand writing on a computer you see type.

Yes , i agree this idea . In the writing paper we can feel one person's emotional by watching his or her handwrithing ,but online letters or emails are just the same styles which had been setted in the computer .They are plain and none emotional in the "writing character" in fact there is no hand writing . Another important ,the handwriting letter can be reserved for as long as we want ,sometime we can read it again and again and feel the emotion in it ,but the online letter is just kept to be read or sometime we even don't keep it .

In overall percentage, yes I agree with you. However, you can't deny the fact that there are online dating in today's society, and these relationships become marriage after time. I agree with how there are less thinking and emotions involved in cyberspace conversations than writing letter, however there are still some involved.

I have to disagree with you on this. A penfriend and a online friend are doing the same thing. They are communicating. The only difference is that one is faster than the other. You can express your emotions with a online friend just like in a penfriend. To me there is no difference. You are mechanized only if you allow yourself to be. I use the computer to keep in touch with my friends and there still is emotion in my emails that are sent.

I don't think anything can steal our emotions. They will all be there when needed. The internet makes these correspondences between boys and girl more like games than like real life. When they need to become emotionally involved I think they will find a way.

Hello bhanusb! My husband and I met online. We started by sending emails to each other then we wrote through handwriting letters from time to time. Honestly, the feelings of reading emails and handwritten letter is different. I guess maybe because I can feel much the sincerity of the person when you know that he spend time and effort in expressing his emotion to you.

well,Brevity is the soul of wit.It is science that makes the soldier get touch with their relatives as fast as possible.Supposed communications-equipment were never existed,should we communicate with others in a short time.Thus,science has become a stimulus to promote our emotion.That is the undoubtful truth we can not deny,albeit we have not to accept that the fleeting development of science also deprive the communications between our hearts. So science has enhanced the exchange of our emotion.We can not leave out this point

Hello Bhanusb, i agreed on you that nowadays human has become mechanized, we lie on the computer so much that we almost forgot how to write in hand! I have a good memories of my penfriends, i used to have 6 penfriends from all over China, we wrote and post the letter and waiting for the reply with excitement, when we finally received the reply, we were so happy, those letters had brighten my days. Although i lost contact with them now, but i still keep this letters with me. Thanks for sharing the touch story with us.

ahaaa,i agree with you!About ten years ago,i sent more than ten letters every week,when i think of it,my god,was really carzy!We come from different places,have different customs and character,and never met,but we talk about everything by letter,some become my intimate friends and keep in contact with each other now,unluckly,I didn't meet my wife,^@^.Of course, i have more and more online friends,but for me most of them only are id codes,we can't trust each other,the reason is with the development of science, pace of life getting faster and faster,we don't have more energy exchange emotion,I think it is only one of the negative effects.We can't change it,but we must face it.