E-Mail For Close Friends

I've been having an on-going conversation thru email with a good friend.  I like e-mail.  It's good.  He's not on facebook, so we get to actually write to each other and the other actually listens.  It's really fun to actually have somebody to converse with.  He's also not trying to show me up or throw up over any personal problems.  It's like the good ole days... when friends actually ran around together and stuff.