1/ From Jeanette Winterson’s column in The Times [of London] this last weekend:

I love the speed and com­pact­ness of tex­ting, and the play­ful­ness of its zippy abbre­vi­a­tions. Yet tact, sen­si­tiv­ity, com­pas­sion, it does not do…. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy is all about My Short­cuts, and that makes sense in the office. It doesn’t make sense in our per­sonal lives. Love and hap­pi­ness, worth­while rela­tion­ships, friend­ships, depend on time and effort, not the shortcut.

2/ From a friend’s email this last weekend:

This era of elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tion brings many bless­ings to the articulate-in-print…. For my part, thank good­ness I went to col­lege when I did. I waged an aggres­sive charm cam­paign against X via ytalk (remem­ber that Pine func­tion?) when we were in W—. If our paths crossed in 1988 instead of 1998, it would have been a whole dif­fer­ent story.