Saturday, April 27, 2013

Jane Bradley: Facebook is fun, but I’m back to good old e-mails

<p>Looking back through the early days of my Hotmail account recently was like uncovering a dusty box full of letters in my parents' attic.</p><p>Among the job applications, work experience pleas and the occasional Amazon order were lengthy messages to and from old friends many of whom I have now drifted out of personal touch with.</p><p>Writing e-mails in those days the early 2000s was like having a penpal. My friends and I, who had all recently graduated, kept in touch via lengthy group missives detailing the minutiae of our lives. Reading them, I remembered so many facts I'd since relegated to the back of my mind. The messages agonising over career choices. The first engagements, houses bought, babies conceived.</p><p>But around 2007, these letter-style e-mails stopped. What happened? Did we all fall out, move on? Not at all. The reason is simple: in 2007, we all joined Facebook.</p><p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/business/personal-finance/jane-bradley-facebook-is-fun-but-i-m-back-to-good-old-e-mails-1-2912142">Keep reading...</a></p>

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