Goodbye To Hello In The Digital Age
from the formality-is-for-the-analog-world dept
Hello. Does anyone actually type "hello" and "goodbye" any more? It doesn't seem to fit in a digital world with email and instant messaging. I know I tend to go with the much more informal "hey" and "later" when dealing with friends. A new study has shown that "hey" and "later" and plenty of other ways of saying hello and goodbye are taking over for "hello" and "goodbye" itself. One person in the article is quoted as saying that, fifty years from now, he doesn't expect there to be any need whatsoever for hello and goodbye in digital communications. Goodbye.
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No salutation at all
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This has happened before
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The new "good-bye"
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One use for goodbye
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Re: This has happened before
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there's still a need!
I never had an i-mode phone, but this was true with all the PHS (i.e. DoCoMo) phones...if you have one try it!
And if anyone complains of you starting/ending a conversation with "hey", just tell 'em you're speaking Swedish.
Hej.
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Written
Letters, notes, memos, and other conventional written forms rarely use "hello" and "goodbye", so it is hardly surprising that e-mail and instant messaging follow suit.
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Goodbye To Hello In The Digital Age
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