Do You Ever Look Back....

On conversations here (that is of course if you have access to old ones) in your PM'S and think, wow that was interesting conversation! I miss those chats! I was looking at one just now from 5 years ago and it was really good. I have no idea if he is still here or perhaps under another nickname. I don't even know why the conversation ended. Likely someone became more interesting than me. It was genuine conversation with a good back and forth flow. I don't know if those kind even happen here anymore, or if this place has taken on a more Instagram style communication. I think I'm to old school. I go way back to the early 2000's where the internet had opened the world up and there seemed to be so many more people willing to really engage with you. A couple of those people I'm still in contact with today.
That's it, my random thought for the day.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Absolutely.

I sometimes feel like an oddball here with 2 to 5 paragraph comments or pms in a world where most get it done in one sentence or less.

I'm likewise old school, dating back to compuserve and AOL that got bypassed by cell phone text-messaging where what you wanted to say got clipped at 78 or 80 characters :) Now, even e-mail is joining land-line phones as something so old-world that you have to check if there will be someone the other end to answer. I was just today sending documents and comments to a business partner and after sending the e-mail I texted her to tell her to check her e-mail.

What was wonderful about e-mail, and still is, is that you get to finish a sentence or paragraph before the party you are talking to responds. And you get to respond with a more comprehensive awareness of what you are responding to. That only happens in real life conversation when you share a mic and pass it back and forth. But usually we speak to one another in half sentences.

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ravenwind43 · 51-55, F

@Heartlander Thanks for commenting my friend. I agree with many of your sentiments :)