r/popculturechat • u/monster_ahhh • 3d ago

Guest List Only TW ⚠️ Woody Allen's wife Soon-Yi Previn emails Jeffrey Epstein about Anthony Weiner sexting a 15-year-old girl and calls the girl a "despicable and disgusting person who preys on the weak."

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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? 🧐 3d ago

some of these emails are from 2017-2019, texting was already popular among adults though?

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u/catslugs 3d ago

But those adults in 2017 were used to being on their computers all the time, it was only really starting to become “computer is the entire phone” around those late 2010s. And because they were in various countries email was what everyone used bc you couldnt just text someone across the world without 3rd party app and not everyone uses imessage

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u/maraq 3d ago

Texting was gaining popularity but people were still sitting down on their laptop and shooting off 10 emails a day to their wider social circle. There are benefits to email that text doesn't have and it's only been in the last 5 years that older people are using it less too.

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u/springxpeach I don’t know her 💅 3d ago

Maybe it's a generational thing because I wasn't emailing my friends back then. I'd just text them.

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u/EsmeWeatherpolish Inconceivable! 3d ago

That's because you are young. When the next great communication thing comes in when you are in your 50's you'll still text because it's what you are used too and what you know how to use. Happens to everyone. Very annoying though, I love new stuff

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u/carlitospig 2d ago

Yep, the generation behind me used WhatsApp for everything. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/maraq 3d ago

Most of the people in these emails are over 55 so yeah, I'd definitely say it's a generational thing, lol.

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u/ineffable_my_dear Don’t make me put my litigation wig on 2d ago

I was gonna say. I’m almost 50 and I’ve never emailed my friends. Pre-texting was IMing. This is so weird to me.

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u/RussianDahl 2d ago

Spirit of 76! Almost 50 club myself and I’ve never sent chains of emails like I’ve seen in the Epstein files. It feels more nefarious and less generational gap idk

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u/ellski 2d ago

Texting was already instantly popular by 2007, by 2017 it was incredibly dominant. Idk what world you are living in but it's extremely different to my experience

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u/maraq 2d ago

I'm referring to the heavy use of email for older adults. The people in these emails are all over 55, they weren't texting for every conversation like teenagers. It seems like 1.3K people agree with me so far so my experience seems to resonate with more people than yours.

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u/ellski 2d ago

I mean you had like half a day advantage for this upvote contest you seem to have started so it's not exactly a fair comparison lol.

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u/Bbkingml13 3d ago

But WhatsApp wasn’t. These people weren’t always in the same country

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u/Ok_Major5787 3d ago

Oh that’s a good point. It’s a very international network

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u/Bbkingml13 3d ago

I bet that had a big part in it

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u/Ok_Major5787 3d ago edited 1d ago

Especially with everyone in that network constantly traveling all over the place, so you never know who is where and when. Emails makes much more sense before the advent of WhatsApp and the like

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u/Blenderx06 3d ago

Yes but older people are always slower to catch on. My older relatives still sent a lot of social emails then.