Pen pal Its All in the Definition
October 10th, 2008When I think about the word pen pal the image that used to come to mind was, sitting at my desk in the third grade and writing to a kid in another country at the request of my teacher. Well today, when you think about a penpal, there is a completely new definition. The term pen pal today, for most adults anyway has nothing to do with a pen or writing a letter. It does however have everything to do with the Internet.
Today if you do a search on the search engine Google using the word pen pal, you will find there are 4,990,000 websites results and another 2,260,000 results for the word penpal. That doesn’t even include phrases like international penpal or Internet penpal.
The word pen pal stems from a time when we didn’t have telecommunication. There was no cell phones, text messaging or Internet. It was a time when the only way to get a message to another person was to actually set down and write them a letter. Meeting people was different as well. People would got to social events, hop’s, or cruise the main drag to meet someone of the opposite sex. However, all that has changed. Read the rest of this entry »










