Women: Dump text and pick up the pen to find Mr Right!
Link: Texting may sabotage women’s chances of finding love
The immediacy of SMS and email can also make us look overly keen - a guaranteed turn-off for blokes.
Dye cites the case of a woman who texted her boyfriend, and didn’t receive a reply for a day. “By the evening she had convinced herself he was having an affair, the relationship was over, and she was a single girl again,” she says.
When he called the next day he couldn’t understand the drama. His only problem was a flat battery.
I do agree with the points in this article. Worth a look if it’s at all of interest.
The immediacy of the medium really can screw things up, especially in a relationship’s infancy. Then again, if you’re both on the same page, it can very exciting. The moment someone has to go into an 8 hour meeting though, the fun ends 
… at least temporarily.
I’m a big fan of love letters. Given today’s email environment, I reckon they’re far more important and meaningful than they ever were.
When’s the last time you sent a love letter?
Right! Get your pen out!
“Dear Ewan…” and continue…
The original article was a bit of fun but the depth of what this story is really about is very deep. Ever since email hit the high streets we have all being using the wrong medium for just about every type of communication we make. Email, sms, instant messenging are all absolutely wonderful if used for the right thing. And yes occasionally things like sms for a bit of the old flirting are a lot of fun.
But people are losing the ability to write long hand, to put down feelings and articulate beliefs in a letter; And as for speaking to each other face to face!!!? How often do we all think, ooh I’m not sure I want to speak to that unhappy client, I’ll just send a quick email because I can hide behind the screen when his reply comes back. And how many of us sit in a room with colleagues and have an email conversation backwards and forwards with them? How stupid is that when you sit back and think about it!?
The speed at which we are losing these abilities is very scary. I would love to think that school teachers are educating kids to know when each medium is appropriate but I just don’t see it happening some how.
It’s definitely about time we all remembered how to look each other in the eyes again and start talking. Or sit down for an hour with pen and paper, some good coffee in the pot and pleasant music in the background and take our time over a letter that we know isn’t going to get read for 2 days and that we won’t get a reply back on for almost a week. Lets slow life down a little bit because right now we are all in danger of disappearing up our own smtp ports and becoming pixels in our own sms inboxes.
steve
PS, Ewan, the letter is in the post…
Posted by steve procter on March 10th, 2007 at 11:44 am.