As much as I think, the communication with a pen friend has changed as before people used to write letters which took more time to reach their place compared with an email or something! So now some people or I don't know how many use net service to communicate instead of writing letters! But still there are many pen friends in the world!
Communication with pen friends have changes
dramatically over the past few years.
In the past a 'pen' friend used to be what the name suggests: A friend that you communicate with via pen and paper. You would send them a written letter in the post, they would receive the letter and write back. Depending on where you sent the letter to, it could be many weeks until you got a letter back.
Now however, due to technological advances,
communicating with a pen friend can be pretty much instant. We no
longer use a pen and paper to correspond with pen friends, the majority of the time communication
is done via the computer.
Finding pen friends is also now a strictly "online affair", whereas before listings of available pen pals or pen friends always came in printed form.
I feel there are some positive and negative results
from this change to digital.
Negative
Personally I feel that there was something special
about receiving a letter from the post, as it gives you something to
look forward to.
Positives
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