Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study

Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study

Have any of you picked up a pen and paper to scrawl some note or jot down a quick to do list only to find your hand muscles have gone slack and your once-clear, familiar handwriting now crooked and forced? I have. Sometimes. It's really rather sad.

The results of a study commissioned by the online stationer Docmail show that I'm not alone--and that we're all getting a little lazy in the writing department: the average time since an adult last wrote by hand, the study showed, was 41 days. 41 days! What's more, 1-in-3 of us, the research showed, has not had cause to write anything the old fashioned way for more than six months. Basically, it's holiday thank-you cards or bust.

This is both appalling and not at all.

Really, why should we fetishize pen-and-ink notation? Electronic correspondence is environmentally greener, quicker to send/receive, and--best of all!--avoids the nasty taste of a licked stamp. Plus, there are plenty of other ways to keep our fingers nimble and our hands occupied.

Writing is dead. Long live writing!
Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study

(our thanks to ctrl+c/v for this story :p)