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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Depends upon purpose and audience. As a professional journalist/writer, I already could type from 80-100 words a minute on typewriters depending upon manual or electric, but word processing was a God send both for adding to the speed and editing capabilities on large articles and documents, and speedy communication through email. With a full-sized keyboard that is. Those advantages shrink along with the keyboards as you go to laptop to tablet to phone.
And while I am not an iron clad etiquette dinosaur who insists that most social communication needs to be handwritten, the hand-written note or card on special occasions or to convey highly personal feelings (rather than the I'm sending a card because society and/or marketing says I should) does add something to the message. It communicates a little more investment, a little more personality.
Then there are the making of lists, jotting down thoughts/ideas, outlining things, etc. -- I still find it easier to jot them down with pen and paper. And my printer is happy to oblige by generating reams of scratch paper from malfunctions.
And while I am not an iron clad etiquette dinosaur who insists that most social communication needs to be handwritten, the hand-written note or card on special occasions or to convey highly personal feelings (rather than the I'm sending a card because society and/or marketing says I should) does add something to the message. It communicates a little more investment, a little more personality.
Then there are the making of lists, jotting down thoughts/ideas, outlining things, etc. -- I still find it easier to jot them down with pen and paper. And my printer is happy to oblige by generating reams of scratch paper from malfunctions.