I'm Here To Tell You That Online Dating Sucks

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33. I remember writting letters, real letters that travelled through the mail

When I was on a trip, I would buy a bunch of pre-paid air mail stationary to write all my friends back home. Once, when I was in a hostel in old city Jerusalem, I met a girl from South Africa. We sort of hit it off talking. She became my pen pal for a few months.

Social media has killed all that. I miss the days of going through the process and being damned sure you wrote what you wanted to write because of the limited amount of space and time it took for the letter to travel by post. You received a letter, and the fact it was from somewhere far away was tangible. It was penned in that person's choice of ink in that person's own handwriting. Plus, there might be a few little drawings. Email and texting have stolen that personal touch.