Speed of Delivery

From the pony express, to the current global postal networks, the constant battle has been against delivery speed.  The faster we could deliver the same message the more advanced we deemed that form of communication to be.  Now with what we can refer to as super communication tools, text messages, email, and twitter, the problem of time to delivery has effectively been nullified.  The speed of delivery is inherently connected with the amount of emotion in a given message as emotion is time sensitive.  The problem arises in repetitive actions, as we are migrating to completely digital lifestyles, it becomes difficult to express emotion within the guidelines of the digital realm.

Emoticons have become the digital representations of our feelings.

Overall Connectedness

Connectedness refers to the reach a particular message might have.  Developing for maximum reach means building tools and services that can intermingle social networks with blogs, and create a unified tool allowing a message creator to spread their communication across all channels.

Connectedness helps and hurts emotion.  It helps by allowing people to use a variety of distribution channels to create messages, it hurts by limiting the boundaries in which messages can grow. No more can a tear drop or a smear of ink be used to portray an emotion on a piece of paper.

Emotion

We are an emotion filled species, perhaps overly so, why does our technological evolution strip away this bare necessity?  We have become so accustomed to the ease of the internet that this ease is killing our ability to see the emotion layer hidden beneath.  This is why we invented blurtt.com.

To utilize the glories of the internet while producing a form of communication that incorporated speed (1 business day), overall connectedness (no more need to know mailing addresses, sending from facebook/twitter), and pure emotion (the joy people get from receiving a tangible, feelable card in the mail is immeasurable).

Next time you want to send someone a personal note, send them a blurtt.  Inject some emotion into your daily communication and watch your relationships flourish.