I read an interesting article in the FT today about how to break your phone addicition. One interesting suggestion is to replace social media interaction with physical letters. I can see his point that receiving a physical letter is a completely different feeling to receiving a "like", a text or even an e-mail. An actual letter in the post carries a lot more weight and importance. It would be interesting to devise an experiment an experiment comparing reactions to exactly the same letter but one sent by e-mail while the other one would be sent by post. I guess there is something more real about a a physical letter. An e-mail will always be at risk of being drowned out by the next one which will probably arrive a few minutes later. A letter will take it time, sitting on your desk for a while until you have decided what you response might be. I was wondering if I should add this to my resolutions but then realized that I don't think I have the postal address of many of the people I might have considered putting on my physical correspondence list.
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