■ 🕑 1. It's good to send emails to friends.
│  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.
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│  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. 
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│  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. 
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│  Do you ever send mails to your old pals?
│  When was the last time you sent a personal email?
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│  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. 
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│  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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├─■ 🕑 2. 
│   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 
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│   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.
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│   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. 
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│   It was fun writing up a !!! 5 page response !!! about life updates
│   and observations. 
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│   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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└─■ 🕑 3. 
  │  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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  └─■ 🕑 4. 
    │  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)
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    │  I managed to get my 60 something year old parents on it no problem. 
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    │  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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    └─■ 🕑 5. 
        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)