It appears that using the internet for sending love messages (or anything else which is priavte) is less safe, and secure than sending letters. Anything tht you ever send on the internet can be recovered. Anything.

With letter, you only have to worry about them being intercepted when you first send them and then only worry that your lover keeps them secure and confidential.

Cell phone text messages are probably the least secure of all time. For one, as kids learn with "sexting", it's easy for that stuff to get passed around faster than Paris Hilton at a Hollywood party just by hitting "forward". This is also why so many republicans have gotten in hot water over forwarding "hilarious" emails about watermelon patches in front of the White House.

Not only that, the cell phone companies keep permanent records of every text message message sent across their service. Any employee with access to that system could make a few bucks by selling a prominant person's love texts to the media.

I have been to the Whitehouse, and I didn't see any watermelon patches. Are they new?

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As I said, it was a "hilarious" joke email that some local republican got in hot water for passing around.