Hey ho, what’s going on?  It seems to me that the art of e-mail conversation has already died, even before it really had the time to gain a good foothold!  For a few fleeting years in the late 90s, I enjoyed endless lively, always humorous, often long-winded debate with friends via e-mail – arrangements were made, issues were discussed, nights out were planned in meticulous detail, opinions were expounded, feelings were expressed. Most of us worked in boring offices and therefore conversing with friends on e-mail always took precedence over more tedious work duties, and the fact that we were wasting countless hours of so-called valuable work time didn’t seem to matter. Oh how things have changed since those heady days of irresponsibility…now, unfortunately, it is with much chagrin that I open my inbox, inevitably only to find the odd group e-mail from a far-flung pal who I can scarcely remember (no offence intended to far-flung pals), alongside a few e-mails suggesting how to improve my penis size. Death to Facebook, Bebo and Myspace and other such websites that have contributed to the dearth of e-mails in my box, that’s what I say! They are the ones to blame for the assassination of e-mail conversation!