It's good to send emails to friends.

2024-01-12T19:32:44+00:00

As life goes on, and we separate from people we cared about before,
it remains a great practice to send emails to old friends every now
and then.

It's not essential AT ALL to make a Facebook / Instagram / Tiktok
/ LinkedIn / whatever to stay in touch with old friends. If anything,
people are more likely to keep their old mail address as trendy
spyware apps come and go.

Equally, it's easier to keep a friend's mail address for long spans
of time than phone numbers -- and the kinds of communications we make
over email tend to be more meaningful than the kinds we may make on
text-adjacent platforms like Whatsapp or Signal, Telegram, etc.

Do you ever send mails to your old pals?
When was the last time you sent a personal email?

If you know any old friends' emails, maybe this thread can serve as
a timely reminder to fire them off a message. Or, maybe it can serve
as inspiration to exchange email addresses with your friends today.

I hope this thread can encourage you to write someone an email,
or save someone's email address if you don't have many. Email is a
great way to maintain friendships over time and distance -- even if
it's "not trendy" it's also not bad! You would be surprised about
how many people would be pleased to get an email that's not spam
from GoogBookBankShopApp and take the time to write a caring,
thoughtful response back to you.

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2024-04-30T07:09:44+00:00

I'd been neglecting my inbox for some time and when I logged on, I saw
that a dear old friend had sent me a chain of messages mixed in among
the inevitable newsletters and various other forms of spam

He asked me how I was doing and told me he was quitting drinking....
Then he sent some long emails about how gangstalkers from region X
followed him to region Y and were putting pressure on him.

Sent an email he regretted sending and then another apologizing for
the recent involvement, said he was looking forward to future messages
if I still considered him to be a friend.

It was fun writing up a !!! 5 page response !!! about life updates
and observations.

Email is timeless, much like textboards. Whether you answer a week or
month later, you will probably be responded to properly in due time.
Email is the patient man's game, like many of the best things in life

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2024-06-26T13:41:54+00:00

i never used email for anything other than confirmation links and i never
needed to send emails to my friends since we lived so close, if i ever
had to talk to them i'd just ride my bike to their house
that changed when i moved, but by that time we were already using messaging
apps on our phones, not ideal since i'm now doing everything i can to stay
away from those spyware in disguise while they don't care

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2024-06-26T17:01:06+00:00

You may be able to get friends to install Signal...
the install process is painless and it's not like they have to do
anything complicated to use it (you text them, they get a notification)

I managed to get my 60 something year old parents on it no problem.

Email isn't really spyware-free since most people end up using Google
or whatever, but at least you don't feel pressured to respond quickly.
What I hate most about FB messenger (and WhatsApp, Instagram, etc):
that it shows "last active" and has read receipts.

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2024-06-30T16:03:13+00:00

unfortunately almost all of my friends are the stubborn/complacent type when
it comes to phones and computers, I tried to get them on something else
in the past but with limited success (only one of them gave in)