Email Blues: Are You A Dinosaur?

"Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity" Proverb

About a month or so ago, a student in my program offered to exchange email addresses so we could stay in touch. As I uttered the word @ AOL, he burst out laughing. "Oh no, Ms. Frank, you must lose this email as it dates you back to the days when computers took forever to load." Hm mm, I thought, I never measured my age or level of hipness by my email address but I suppose some people do. I laughed it off and insisted he write it down anyway.  Mind you, I do have both  gmail and ymail accounts, however, I must confess that because my AOL account has been around since ... well, you understand, I proffer it without thinking much about it.

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.' Let us not erect walls without doors of friendliness or windows of love." Joseph Fort Newton

Honestly, I truly don't recall getting the memo about hip and unhip email providers. Back in the day, if you were averse to paying for email service, you picked a popular free hotmail handle and left it to the hipsters to duke it out. Life went on and nary another vocal reaction to our email choices until last week. Well, as if my last email bashing experience wasn't enough, I was confronted or read accosted by another friend recently who chose to throw diplomacy out the window when she uttered; "Oh, Oh, has anyone told you that you must be a dinosaur to have AOL?"