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01-09-2018, 10:54 PM
Grandma makes a great case for snail mail as social media
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Perhaps internet commentary would be better if we had to send it through the mail instead.
One grandma, at least, makes a great case for replacing social media with snail mail. Her grandson, Redditor Yaleisthecoolest (https://www.reddit.com/user/Yaleisthecoolest), wrote in a post (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7p3yr6/my_grandmother_is_too_old_for_social_media_so_she/?st=jc7p9udq&sh=587d8f3f) Monday that his grandmother "clips things out of the newspaper in her small town, and mails them to [his] mother so they can discuss them, annotated with 90yo hot takes."
SEE ALSO: Here's the lucky Redditor who got Secret Santa gifts from Bill Gates this year (http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/bill-gates-reddit-gifts-secret-santa-2017/)
Here is one such take, and it's a scathing one at that:
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Friends, think of this incredible new world. Instead of firing off whatever you want on Twitter, you'd have to find an envelope, buy a stamp, seal everything up and — get this — travel to the post office to get your takes out there. Now, would the spread of information slow considerably, even dangerously? For sure! But there would be fewer bad #dotard tweets — and that's something we can all get behind. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/grandma-newspaper-snail-mail-memes-reddit/)
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Perhaps internet commentary would be better if we had to send it through the mail instead.
One grandma, at least, makes a great case for replacing social media with snail mail. Her grandson, Redditor Yaleisthecoolest (https://www.reddit.com/user/Yaleisthecoolest), wrote in a post (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7p3yr6/my_grandmother_is_too_old_for_social_media_so_she/?st=jc7p9udq&sh=587d8f3f) Monday that his grandmother "clips things out of the newspaper in her small town, and mails them to [his] mother so they can discuss them, annotated with 90yo hot takes."
SEE ALSO: Here's the lucky Redditor who got Secret Santa gifts from Bill Gates this year (http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/bill-gates-reddit-gifts-secret-santa-2017/)
Here is one such take, and it's a scathing one at that:
https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/TQrfnY0k31HFjuNOwDFyzjfo6bw=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F690273%2F4cd3523c-fa2b-4025-81dc-7c0ad97fa8bf.jpg
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Friends, think of this incredible new world. Instead of firing off whatever you want on Twitter, you'd have to find an envelope, buy a stamp, seal everything up and — get this — travel to the post office to get your takes out there. Now, would the spread of information slow considerably, even dangerously? For sure! But there would be fewer bad #dotard tweets — and that's something we can all get behind. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/grandma-newspaper-snail-mail-memes-reddit/)
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