Remember handwritten letters to that overseas penpal?

Remember handwritten letters to that overseas penpal?

You’d write it using a pen and ink.
On especially thin blue paper.
The latest news and views.

But … it took several weeks to arrive.

And by the time it did.
The news was outdated.
Your views had moved on

Welcome to LinkedIn 2025.

If your feed is anything like mine it’s full of posts from a week ago.
Or two weeks ago.
Or even three weeks.

Ancient in this era.

Which is disappointing because I really wanted to know …

- Which conferences you attended last month.
- Where exactly you had that company away day.
- When you got laid off and put up the ‘open to network’ circle.
- What political stupidity had occured that you wanted to rant about

But alas …

I had to wait for three weeks to find out.
By which time there’s not much point in a 👍 or ♥️

Maybe you could just drop me a line by post - it would be quicker.
Certainly more effective than this platform for your latest news and views.

Who else been thinking this?

Let me know. I’ll come back to look at your comments in a couple of weeks.


* Handwritten with love and no AI. Spelling and grammar mistakes my own.