CWU get it right on what to do when Facebook/WhatsApp are down: write a letter
The CWU, which represents postal workers, had the perfect response to the global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp & Insta on Monday(all owned by the same people of course as free market capitalism tends towards monopoly).
They tweeted that the best form of communication was to write a letter. This may have puzzled those who have never had the reason or desire to do so. Indeed letter writing, whether personal or to the newspapers is in significant decline.
Even so, not only is writing in a letter format, rather than a short FB or twitter post, a useful discipline, it is also in terms, of length, form and content something that is entirely under the writers control.
Just remember to put your name at the end, because otherwise it will be an anonymous letter, a separate historical category altogether.
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