When you're having to write a letter, as they would have 150 years ago, you will take more time to put your thoughts together.
"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.
What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows.
You know, [liquid_schwartz], that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever."
...And I'm sure there was a caveman who lamented the truly social acts of screaming, grunting, pantomime, and excessive touching when the younger generation started using words to be social. But no one understood him.
. By making it easier Twitter in a sense encourages lazy and shoot from the hip responses.
Plato (through Socrates or vice versa) praised the lazy shoot from the hip verbal communication more than slow and formal writing. Modern social media via ubiquitous internet is more like talking with words than it is writing. Socrates would love it.
