Email??

Email!!! The cheap and quick way to say a lot or a little no matter the distance!
Email is used through out the world both formally and informally. I personally find email a great way of contacting family and friends at home. However this digital phenomenon has an added stigma attached alongside it. Lister comments on the intimacy and personal touch of a letter is long gone, apart from the severe downfall in the use of the Postal System such as The Royal Mail, but the almost instantaneous system of Email that has caused what Lister refers to as, "the internet based practice of 'flaming - argumentive hostile and insulting exchanges" (pg 19)which has been incouraged through the rapid system which is Email.

Email is an attactive feature to many as it saves people sitting down and spending a lengthy time writing a letter, then making the effort to buy stamps and then the further effort to find a post box.

I use emails alot through casual chats with friends and family at home but find it also useful to be able to send more formal emails to tutors and places of work with perhaps quick work based questions.