Haha you were never passed notes in high school. My most embarrassingly awful messages were all hand written. I am very careful with my emails because editing is so easy.
I passed notes extensively in high school – it's a lot of them I'm thinking of! A friend has saved a box of the ones I wrote her and it's fun to revisit.
Email's interesting because there's traditionally been very little of that social-media-feed-style automatic sorting / filtering outside of spam (not that the "priority inbox" concept isn't trying) so the weight still properly lies on the sender to make the missive easy to handle. I too edit the bejesus out of all my work emails, but it's a different skill than having to compose a coherent first draft without easy edits.
