April 8, 2008...10:16 am
technologically speaking
Some conversations should be done in person, or over the phone. Conversations that involve facial expression and voice inflections. E-mail can be rehearsed and re-written, IM is impersonal and hard to sometimes interpret. I love face-to-face when it is a truly heartfelt discussion.
I have a friend that I haven’t seen in about 30 years. She is wonderful, and sweet and has always been in the forefront of my mind. When she moved away while we were still in elementary school, I didn’t really think I would ever hear from her, or see her again. Well, with good old technology, we found each other. We are over a thousand miles apart and I am grateful that I can talk to her through e-mail and IM, but they lack the closeness you get from face to face or phone. I don’t know why we haven’t graduated to phone conversations yet, but I am hoping that we will soon. Some things just really need to be said in person.
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