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LumosLupin t1_jdhddrq wrote

Reply to comment by elijha in [OC] Retro Activities People Currently Still Do bucketed by Age by Square_Tea4916

Eeeeh idk. In Argentina, telegrams are still used for legal/administrative things. For example informing you are going to quit your job.

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elijha t1_jdhdjcs wrote

Do you think this sample of US adults was 15% Argentine immigrants?

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InsuranceToTheRescue t1_jdiqihp wrote

There are a minority of things that telegrams are still useful for. I think it's niche legal situations mostly, because for telegrams, whatever it is, is binding when it's sent rather than when it's received.

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elijha t1_jdir701 wrote

Presented with the stat that 15% of under 29s and virtually no one over 44 is sending telegrams, your hypothesis is that young people just have a lot of urgent legal business to attend to? Seriously? Final answer?

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InsuranceToTheRescue t1_jditu0q wrote

Uhh . . . Can I phone a friend?

Edit: Mostly my comment was supposed to be just a fun fact sort of deal.

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LumosLupin t1_jdhdqgo wrote

I'm saying maybe there is some administrative weird thing that is there since immemorial times and nobody bothered to modernize.

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elijha t1_jdhdtje wrote

You would be incorrect in that theory.

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LumosLupin t1_jdhe1gx wrote

You know every single administrative process in the US? Wow, you really must have a wealth of knowledge

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elijha t1_jdhe8t6 wrote

You really think there is some administrative process so secret that none of us have heard of it, but that 15% of people under 29 and 10% of people under 44 have had to do recently?

This doesn’t require a wealth of knowledge, just some bare minimum of critical thinking skills

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CY_Royal t1_jdiku71 wrote

Even a bit of knowledge can seem like a wealth or even impossible to those who have none

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