We live in a fast-paced communication environment with text messages and video callings, communicating through texting a few words with fast responses. Fewer people are willing to spend time waiting for answers, so it causes the phenomenon that people don’t cherish relationships. However, keeping our inner calm is a communication attitude that we should hold. I hold a habit of sending postcards with my friends several times each month to communicate our daily interesting things. We all enjoy the experience of the postcard and cherish our relationship. Therefore, I want to transmit the concept of slow-paced communication under the fast-paced communication environment, making people value the importance of waiting in social communication through experiencing a hybrid of traditional communication with digital technology: digital postcards.
It’s not a typical social communication app: postcards take time to be delivered. Users need to experience writing a postcard seriously instead of rushing text messages, and then waiting for the delivery of postcards. The concept of slowness is displayed in the time of writing and delivering the postcards. Unlike Twitter, Instagram, and many existing communication media, the app has nothing to do with people’s appearances, so there are no personal images in the profile, but more emphasis on slow-paced communications between two souls.
Challenging current fast-paced connections, through slow-paced communication experience of writing postcards seriously and waiting for the arrival of postcards in the app, people will understand that having communication with another person should be cherished and taken into serious consideration of the relationship.