On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 19:08, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:47 AM Dave Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > These days I think [email] is mostly used by us old fogies. > > Fair enough, but what, pray tell, do all those non-old-fogies use to > > convey thoughts that are too long for social media comments and too short > > for blog posts? > > > > Not being on most popular social media (Twitter, FB, etc.) I am not > qualified to answer this. But when have I let such trivialities get in the > way of offering my opinions? :-) > > I posit that one way the youth of today are conveying their thoughts in > through non-textual means: Through Snapchat (i.e., marked up > photos/images), and through the sharing of meme images/animations. One > mixed (textual and non-textual) medium popular in many parts of the world > (and with many parallels to emails/mailing lists) seems to be WhatsApp and > similar messaging apps. >
It seems to me that none of those media support the kind of thing Dave was asking about: "too long for social media comments and too short for blog posts" does that mean they just don't do that sort of communicating? -- Charles
