Caleb McDaniel (who blogs at Mode For Caleb -- worth reading) says in comments :
To your point that people have always wanted to communicate through text, I would add that there have always been people who worried about such communication as a substitute for "real" interaction. Even letter writers in the early nineteenth century waxed long and poetical about how much they deplored the separation of their bodies, and evincing some doubtfulness about whether they could be united in mind in spite of this distance. There have always been some who say distance makes the heart grow fonder, and others who say that's a load of crap.
He's right. On a somewhat unrelated subject he's also right about Starbucks if you define right as "sort of agreeing with me"
Posted by robe0419 at February 17, 2005 12:50 PM