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What the hell is e-✉️? Or ๐ŸŒ-✉️?

Poor Jimmy...
Email? 

Snailmail?

Okay, okay - at least 90-99.99% of us in this society (specifically U.S. and this class) knows what email is...electronic mail.. or mail of some kind of information that transmits/travels electronically from one place to another (particularly a device to a device, or actually network to a network). 

But snailmail? 

I mean, is snailmail some kind of mail that snails carry on their shell backs? Like they carry actual handwritten letters to "give" to people? 

No, fam...no..

It's not even literal. 

Here's my breakdown of what the differences really are between email and snailmail: 

(And no..I don't breakdance...that's ..that's not what I meant when I said "breakdown" ๐Ÿ˜‘

Similarities 
  • Mails carrying some type of information
  • Travels from one destination to another (how and specifically what? there are differences for that)
๐’Ÿifferences
  • Snailmail
    • Physical delivery of mail (information coming in different physical sizes ranging from information written on paper in an envelope to a huge package of I don't know what!) between two persons through a postal service
    • Speed of delivery is slower
    • Mail can get lost when it travels in the hands of the postal service workers 
    • Unique feeling of receiving mail handwritten or creatively made 
    • There is cost $$$ in paying for such service to happen 
  • Email
    • The general delivery of mail (information does not come in different physical sizes, but in text/word sizes) between two persons through a network/network service
    • Speed of delivery is faster (depending on the network/network service used) 
    • Mail can be lost when it travels in the "hands" of the network - mistakes in address to send to can happen and it may lead to one of the two persons to receive an error about it 
    • Lack of personal touch or unique feeling of receiving mail - so monotonous 
    • Emails can be hacked (depending on how protected one may be) and any information can be stolen/taken/accessed 
    • Unlike snailmail, a single email can be sent to multiple addresses - which encourages the flow of communication 
    • Unlike snailmail (which must contain papers/documents/physical objects), multiple mails sent can be organized in one area or box since they're all mostly text or visual images (photos, videos) 
    • You may need to pay your network provider, but there is no cost $$$ for email 
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