Postcards

Of late I have come to an observation (not that it ever stops or anything), about the way people end conversations . They have this anecdote " Stay in Touch". I have nothing against people who use them, but I guess due to genetic scripting and engineering education, I tend to wonder HOW ?

I just think that its a way to avoid further conversation or blatantly avoiding to tell the person " Stop harrasing me now, do it when Im not around or something". Now with technology's awsomeness there are so many ways to communicate like chat, fb, sms, call, email and then some. I usually want to play the Q&A game with the person who says that :

a) I call you (then we can be in different time zones subjected call charges and one's "busy" life" there is an impediment )
b) I buzz you ol (thats subjected to constraints of not being there, just plainly acting multi-tasker and not answering)
c) FB .. yes lets make all conversations public so everyone knows everything
d) SMS ( I take 2secs to answer you and you take 2hrs , I actually saw a group called that on fb )

I haven't actually done it so far but I'd really like ask the person which of the options ?

I don't want to be one of those people who long for antiquity, but whatever happened to those days when hand written letters were sent to people. In bollywood especially there would be this scene where written letters would be the source for communication between lovers and crime investigators would try to analyze them to get hold of the culprit..

It strikes to me that everything goes with the concept " Less is More ". Things like a small note from someone who writes it with thought is actually like a small treasure. Just for that I'd wish we still kept using postcards with colored stamps on them for communicating to people so that we could keep parts of them in a box and store it for later when the paper would become yellower and fader but still manage to bring a smile on our face.