Is it still fun to have a penpal?
By aubrey
@averygirl72 (37763)
Philippines
March 7, 2018 6:36pm CST
Now with cellphones SMS and Facebook I think no one wants to make penpal. When in college I post my home address into Health and Home magazine and I find at least 5 penpals from different parts of the Philippines. Some have good handwriting, some have bad handwriting.
But I think it's still cool to receive mails and handwritten notes and sometimes pictures and cards. Do you have a penpal who is a member of mylot?
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7 responses
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
You are wrong when you said no one wants to have a pen pal. If you have an instagram account and search for the hashtag #penpal, you'd be surprised how many people in this world are still into it. I don't have a pen pal from mylot but I have one from England, from Malaysia, from Indonesia, and within this country.
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
@averygirl72 I still enjoy the traditional pen and paper thing.
@averygirl72 (37763)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
That's good to know penpal is still alive. Mylot and forumcoin are good sites where we can speak or talk with other people online and in real time
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
8 Mar 18
I had many penpals when I was in high school and college, but I wasn't as busy then as I am now. I did enjoy it as long as those relationships lasted. Now I have myLot to get to know people in other parts of the world.
@averygirl72 (37763)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
Yeah we are not that busy we can do that. Before it was popular but now we have social media and internet it's easier to make friends with strangers
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
9 Mar 18
@averygirl72 It's less expensive, too, with postage getting higher every day.
@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
8 Mar 18
Not now but I used to when I was a child. I remember I had a Japanese penpal called Hideko Sakai and we wrote to each other for years but eventually lost touch. I wonder where she is now as we were both 14 when we started writing to each other.
@averygirl72 (37763)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
That's a nice to know you had a Japanese penpal during your younger years. Maybe you find her in Facebook
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
8 Mar 18
@averygirl72 This was back in the 60s so facebook wasn't around then. I think it was done through my school. I do exchange emails with online people from various sites and one are two are on my facebook now but I wouldn't say they were penpals.
@MainerMikeBrown (1373)
• Bridgton, Maine
8 Mar 18
No, I don't have a penpal who is a member of MyLot.
The only time I had a penpal was when I was a kid. My penpal was my grandfather.
All these years later, I still have his letters that he wrote to me years ago. I'm glad that I kept them, as he passed away in 2000.
@averygirl72 (37763)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
That's really nice to know that you have remembrance from your grandfather by writing each other
@Metsrock69 (3505)
• United States
8 Mar 18
I have a few penpals in different countries and I met them using my smartphone. Maybe they are called smartpals but they are awesome to have
@averygirl72 (37763)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
That's really great. Wish I have them too. That's really awesome
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@Metsrock69 (3505)
• United States
8 Mar 18
@averygirl72 I meet most of them on twitter but since joining here, I consider this having penpals the computer version
@levis2020 (171)
• Philippines
8 Mar 18
Those were the days. But actually it was exciting to receive letters from a pen pal. I had a few ones in college too. But today, I don't know if people are still into it. The internet and email makes postal mail almost obsolete.
