Social media - Edwardian style!

Here's an interesting paper discussing the postcard craze of the early 20th century.
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/EVIIpc/docs/Early%20Postcard%20BERA%2009%20paper.pdf


There are some parallels with texts and tweets. People often used a more relaxed writing style than in formal letters, which led to worries about declining standards; the sender can choose a photo as well as text, and the robust, small format made them easy to write "on the go". Edwardian postcards were also a surprisingly rapid medium: in major cities there were up to 10 postal deliveries per day!


The authors have re-sent a lot of Edwardian postcards as tweets: https://twitter.com/eVII_PO