Remember Pen Pals? We’re Bringing Snail Mail Back. Calling All Women Over Fifty!
Mail has become so impersonal over the years…bills, junk mail, the neighbor’s mail, blah…blah…blah… that going to my mailbox has just become a necessary item on my to-do list each day. But that week, as silly as it sounds, I was actually excited to get my mail in anticipation of what I’d find…who I’d hear from.
Remember Pen Pals?
It reminded me of a loooooong time ago when I’d had pen pals. Did you ever have one? I had a couple and absolutely loved getting letters from them. We kept in touch for several years.
It made me wonder if people even did that anymore, or if it was another one of those “back in the day” things that had fallen by the wayside. So I did a little research. Snail mail pen pals are coming back in style again!
I found several Pen Pal Exchange sites online. Rows and rows of profile pictures were listed, most blurry or poor quality. They reminded me of dating sites. All ages, all genders. There didn’t seem to be any crowd control.
Call me old fashioned, but with the state of the world today and the importance of keeping our privacy protected, I’d hesitate to put my name out there with all the potential whack-a-do’s trolling the internet. I’m not saying there aren’t some out there that are totally legit, I’m sure there are, but my interest was in connecting with a woman that was near my own age. Someone I could develop a friendship with that could relate to my age and interests.
Then I had one of those “well DUH! moments.
My whole purpose in creating Women Over Fifty Network was to connect with
Facebook groups and forums can be a wonderful source for meeting friends, but it seems when you find a good one, everyone else realizes it’s a good one too, and you eventually end up getting lost in the masses.
Women Over Fifty Network’s tagline states we will “Inspire, Support and Celebrate each other. I attempt that through blog posts, our Facebook page and Facebook groups, our newsletters, but sometimes “connecting” can only really be accomplished on a personal one-on-one level. And sometimes that’s what women our age are craving.
So…I Created the WOMEN OVER FIFTY NETWORK PEN PAL EXCHANGE
Let’s be pen-pals! I don’t mean let’s friend each other on Facebook. I’m not talking about sending each other emails that get lost in our junk folders. I’m not saying let’s add each other to our hundreds of other social media “followers”. I’m talkin’ let’s be good ol’ fashioned, one-on-one, hand-written, send by-snail mail Pen Pals.
To keep out the riffraff (did you like that ancient term?), all of our Pen Pals will be:
- Women
- Over Fifty
- Subscribers of Women Over Fifty Network
As long as we keep everybody contained within our little Women Over Fifty Network community we should be just fine.
This will be a great way for us to connect with each other and make friends with like-minded women, right?
LET’S DO THIS!
1. Enter your first name and email in the form below. Click “Submit“. Congrats. You’re now a new subscriber of Women Over Fifty Network.
2. Next you need to confirm your subscription. Go to your email inbox to find an email from me.
3. Click “Confirm My Subscription” (this lets me know that you are really you & meant to subscribe).
4. You will then automatically be taken to the Pen Pal page to fill out your profile. I will mail your profile to your new pen pal, and I will mail your new pen pal’s profile to you.
It’s FREE. See you soon!
UPDATE 12/8/2018
Because of an overwhelming interest, new pen pal applications are not being accepted at the present time. I will post when enrollment is once again open.
Thank you so much for your interest!
Patti
I am anxious to join your group and to make a new friend. I have been looking for a long time and just found prisoners. No thank you. I have been writing since I was a kid….live it.
I m interested in penpals women over 50
It’s been my hobby since I was in grade school and I’ve got lots of friends. Thanks for reviving the trsditional way of making friends all over the world thru pen.More power!!!
That’s so cool that you’ve kept it up, Edita. I love that there has been a resurgence in snail mail communication. I’ve really missed receiving “good” mail, and it’s such a fun way to get to know someone.
Looking forward to this new adventure, though I did have a pen pal when I was a kid.As an adult I look forward to the same excitement of writing and receiving a hand written note or letter.
Felicia, I know! I get the same excitement as an adult as I used to as a kid. I’ll be mailing you your new pen pal’s profile. It will go out in the mail tomorrow. Have fun!
What a great idea! It’s not for me at the moment as I do so much writing in my day job but I too remember the joy of pulling a real letter from the mailbox. Today’s kids miss out hey?! In fact, thanks to Facebook, I am still in touch with some of my old penpals in NZ, England, Germany and the US, and have even met two of them now 🙂
I’m really looking forward to getting the first letter from my brand new pen from Sweden! For as hard as technology is pushing us forward, I seem to be pushing it back just as hard. In our hurry-up, instant gratification world, even though I’m firmly entrenched in it, I’m actually craving the anticipation of waiting, and then the thrill of receiving snail mail, and getting to know someone slowly. I agree with you though Janet, Facebook is wonderful for staying in touch with old friends, and that is SO COOL that you’ve been able to actually meet two of your pen pals. How exciting! Thanks for taking the time to comment.