Jordan: Has Technology Killed Our Romanticism?

On the one hand, it has killed our emotions – feelings the next generation will never know. They will never understand the longing and impatience we used to enjoy on the days in which letters were written on paper. You had to spend an entire week thinking about what you wanted to write in your letter, and change what you had written a thousand times. You would procrastinate as you were on your way to the post office and after you mail your letter, you would allow your imagination to run wild figuring out the reaction on the receiver's face.

You will think: Will what I had just sent make him laugh? Have I done justice with my words or no…Will he get angry and not respond to my letter… will he ..

You will continue worrying and thinking for days and days and you will return to the post office more than once, and sometimes two or three times on the same day until you receive all that you have hoped for on a piece of paper. You will secretly smile to yourself when you get a letter with a short story, which no one else knows, and which was written just for you…
Just for you…
You hug it …
You smell it …
It transfers you to another world…although it was just a piece of paper.

For days and days, you would remain happy and you would feel like you would want to stop the people on the street and tell them about your happiness. You would repeat the cycle again, and start writing another letter …

I agree with you that technology has curtailed a lot of the beautiful and genuine feelings. Of course, it has also increased mass circulation and made it easier.

There are a lot of pros and cons, just like with everything else :)

Technology, led by the internet, has become the cornerstone of social relations nowadays.
As for beautiful feelings and emotions, they can now be sent without a lot of trouble and at the click of a button. This is a testimony to the fast paced life we live, which has made such emotions like fast food meals :)

Technology has made us lose the real meaning of connecting with each other even during festivities. Instead of calling and congratulating others, we now send text messages from our mobile phones and that's it. Also, we respond to messages with other text messages. The world has really changed!
I don't blame you. Technology is useful for other things and its abuse has made it hated and lose its meaning.