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I too feel the same way.The pace of life is so fast, we do not rely on hand writing or other forms of activity which rely on physical work.Whether it is office work or chores at home there is some gadget or appliance which has taken over the human effort.We do require to operate these gadgets but in the olden days we would use more physical effort as there were fewer mechanical appliances.I do feel our ability to write with the hand has diminished but it is something we can regain with sustained effort.These gadgets have made us more Eco friendly as we protect trees and paper from being wasted.There are both advantages and minus points in this form of life relying on appliances and gadgets.

I can write just fine on paper but it is easier to type on the computer and faster. I do not feel like I lost anything in relation to writing.Print, cursive, or typing it doesnt matter to me all is fine.

I can still write despite the fact that almost everyday I type on a keyboard. Although when I start to write after a long time, I find it hard to make it legible. Writing is like any other skill we learn. After a while of not doing it, it will seem as though we have to learn it a bit over again.

writing is part of a student life but when we go higher, we learn to type and do speed typing and as for fast communication..

I am one of those people who really are into gadgets, but i'm also one of those people who really still love to write letters the traditional way. I would rather send a note handwritten to my friends rather than emails, if it's possible. I love being creative on paper with my words and i do enjoy it. If it weren't for the convenience of keeping my diary lock in my ipad, i would still prefer to jot them down on notebook with real ink. So i believe i haven't lost that ability to do things the traditional way especially in writing.

We've fallen into the faster is better concept. We can write an email and send it and within moments it arrives at it's destination, a letter by mail...well...that can take up to a week or more...then there is the potential return time via mail vs the return or response time via email...same day or a couple weeks later... Then there are those of us who's long hand is barely legible. The type writer was a great help to us, the internet combined the legibility with the speed for potential response. The need for language skills has not diminished, proper grammar, spelling, and word usage is and always will be important. The one thing we sometimes forget when we lament the loss of our use of older technology is that with the new our horizons expand...if we were still dependent upon mail, would we today be communicating across the oceans?

I admit that I use my computer a lot when I am working on some piece of writing. I have writing a novel for some time (this is my first one, so I am going blindly on how this works). When I put the actual content together, I use the computer, but because I don't know how to do this, I scribe with pen and paper, jotting down all kinds of notes or doodles (I also draw a lot). Lately, I have also been using this computer lately to just write down things that come out of my head. It is easier for em to type it out because of the flow of information. Sometimes, it feels as if my head is overflowing with thoughts. You may notice that I have lengthy responses here on mylot. It's like the taps have been opened and thoughts just come gushing out. I don't have the guts to put my thoughts into a blog because I don't want anyone to think I am crazy. I suddenly found myself with a lot of time on my hands and I have been having all kinds of thoughts lately. To put this into perspective, if my brain could lift weights, it would be bulked up and ripped by now. That is how hard it is working. I have never had so much clarity, and it is easier for me to jot it down on my computer. Plus, it is password protected, so I don't have to worry about prying eyes. About writing, I still do that. I use the pen and paper for taking notes, even when I am in school. In some of my classes, there are some who take notes on their computer. I can't do that for the life of me. My notes look like real notes, scribbly, arrows everywhere, heavy editing. It looks like a football playbook. I even had a chemistry teacher bar us from using white-out and erasing. His reasoning was he wants to see our thought process. I really don't like looking at a screen all the time. My pet peeve is when people write a letter, especially an email, and they use cryptic acronyms, language that would be found in a text, tons of short hand, unintelligible jargon. I understand on a phone why one would do this, but when you are in front of a keyboard, there is no reason not to use full words and sentences. Truthfully, I don't use cursive as much since I swear I may have wrote prescriptions when writing notes. Sorry for the winded response. Brain flexing muscle again.

Why use paper if you can type the whole sentence with decorative picture and added with some visual effect and pass it to the person whom you want to impress, i think its time that we move on with technology leaving behind paper that comes from trees, nowadays there are many way to convey to your person of your feelings and nicely too, while in paper its limited.

I don't think, I know and I happily embrace that fact. I never was rather that gifted in the hand writing department. I am one of those people who had been blessed with the most awful handwriting of all time. Well maybe not the worst of all time, as I'm sure somewhere in the entire history of the world, there is really something that has to be out there and I really shudder a lot of the time. I'll be honest, I have not really written anything on paper in about ten or so years, other than my name. When the computer age arrived, I think I embraced it. My teachers at school embraced it for many people as well, including myself. I rather am fond with typing things up on the computer, just printing it off and we'll be really good to go all things considered. So hand writing for me and I'm sure many others is a thing of the past and we are pleased with that fact.

Really, since school I had never much ability to hand write, and from these days until today I still have an ugly letter when hand writing. Anyway I see your point, it's far easier and less error-prone to use computers to write and send than most traditional methods and I'm more comfortable with them. I see a few situations where hand writing is preferable, like birthday cards (they are a lot more personal if done by hand), and signature of documents, as well as small notes taken on the fly when doing something or in university.

Well, it is much faster if we write on a computer, and it is easier to send a email than to send a handwritten letter, but even in those days we use cellphones and laptops for everything, we still need to write on a peace of paper, I think that to lose the ability to write we need more technology, but some day... thanks, have a nice day.

Yes, I seldom write now except when I am crunching some numbers. But writing a paragraph or something really is uncomfortable now for me. Especially now that I don't have much exams which requires writing in paper. I got used to using the keyboard and my ability to write using a pen and paper have diminished greatly. This one is quite true for me.

Not me... i still have the ability to do hand-write. Sometimes if i find something on the internet that i would like to remember i write it down on a paper and a put it in front of my monitor so the next day i still remember what to do if i surf the internet.

I haven't thankfully. I still write on my personal diary via pen :) I'm pretty into my handwriting, I don't even like using shortcuts with words. It's tough keeping a journals over the web I'm paranoid that someone might stumble on the page and find out some things. I don't feel secure with the privacy that's being offered up on the web as far as I know everything can be hacked nowadays...