Why Introverts Love E-mail

Here’s my secret: each night, at home, using an old-fashioned analog phone line, I connect to the Internet for hours at a time. I’m a weenie, a geek. My mother and my friends tell me, “I can never get through. Your phone’s always busy.” And it is. And though I worry that my computer and modem might just be high-tech tools of procrastination—expensive boxes that provide the illusion of work—I also know that I love using e-mail, that I love using the Internet. E-mail fits the way I like to communicate.