Comments on: Did you ever have a penfriend when you were younger?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:06:37 +0000

I agree with that everyone should have a pen-pal!
I love the ability to openly speak about yourself to someone else who doesn't know you. It's all free of judgement and critism.

In a rather perculiar manner, I'm probably more open about myself to strangers (or atleast Online Buddies), than sometimes to my "real" friends.

Odd really... Although I think it's just my personality more than anything, I've always been a bit of an introvert!

(See what I mean about revealing loads!)

Samantha.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:06:37 +0000

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:37 +0000

By: issaham

issaham — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:35:28 +0000

I had a pen-pal in France

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:00:39 +0000

Do you mean write letters?

The last time I wrote a letter, it was a letter of complaint to my headteacher about the lack of ICT staff at my school. Other than that... No.

I reserve letter writing for when E-mail seems too casual.

I've never had a pen-pal either, although I do have a number of online friends, mainly from America - they love the English accent - and some others too.

Letter writing was never encouraged by my primary school, or secondary school though.

Sad really, I always wanted a pen-pal when I was younger.

Samantha.

By: LeilR

LeilR — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:59:58 +0000

As per observation, instead of snail mails, teens and tweens would rather make friends or pals via facebook and myspace, or go to online chat communities. Then, by the time they made new friends, they would start communicating via email. They prefer the fast way.

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:13 +0000

What do teenagers do now? Do they still *write*?

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By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:13 +0000

What do teenagers do now? Do they still *write*?

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By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:12 +0000

Heh!

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:02 +0000

I used to have a pen-friend in Germany, met her on a school trip to Paris ;o) It would've been a crazy time for her as the Wall had just come down but you don't care about those little things when your young!

By: JOhn

JOhn — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:39:33 +0000

Don't the call this sort of thing “grooming” nowadays?

By: MarkW

MarkW — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:23:58 +0000

I used to have a penfriend in Malaysia when I was in my early teens. We wrote for ages and then just kind of stopped. I spose Facebook and its ilk are the modern replacement. Things have moved on I imagine.

By: tring

tring — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:59:19 +0000

Our primary school set up a scheme with an American school where we each had a penfriend. The American school paid for all their kids to come over and meet us, we weren't so lucky (tight bad stuarts).

Today's penfriends are or rather were (since they no longer allow you to poke the randoms) the random adds on facebook?!

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:36:15 +0000

God yeah I did – wrote to them for years, met a few times and lost touch.. How quaint!