This is true, certainly. Though to be fair, I'm a much more automatic and natural typist than I am a long-hand writer, and while it's nice to be able to draw arrows between ideas and write various kinds of marginalia, digitally... I think think the inflexibility of the digital is made up for by the long term utility, and the fact that I--personally--can brute force the data entry problem.
At the same time, people are terrible about writing personal email, so while hand written letters are always intimate, emails--even "personal" emails often aren't. That's about the writing process and the way people typically approach the correspondence, rather than anything intrinsic about the potentials of the form.
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:58 pm (UTC)At the same time, people are terrible about writing personal email, so while hand written letters are always intimate, emails--even "personal" emails often aren't. That's about the writing process and the way people typically approach the correspondence, rather than anything intrinsic about the potentials of the form.