I still like e-mail as a medium for friendships. I may be the only one, but I do.
@vruba I like them when written by hand too.
@vruba me too, as long as it’s asynchronous over very long time scales.
@vruba So do I. I was reflecting only yesterday that this is symptomatic of why I am a largely friendless middle-aged man. Reading a biography of Bertrand Russell, realising how much time the Edwardians devoted to correspondence...
Freeform asynchronous text. I’m not saying it’s better than anything else in particular, but it’s very good.