Actually, I'm communicating with old friends and forwarding chain letters. If something really good appears in my in-box, I'll print it out and stick it on my fridge. Don't laugh, I'm not alone. There enough are nerds like me who love to hear You've got mail so much, we helped set box office records for a corporate cookie cutter love movie. These same folks are participating in a curious new social phenomenon that is both unique to the information age, and also has deep historical roots.
Myths are as old as humanity itself.
Somewhere, eons ago, an ancient looked to the cloud shrouded moon and wondered why god was so fickle. She had brought him a bountiful crop, yet his harvest was devoured by frogs. These events provided the ironic threads with which he would weave an evolving narrative. His children modified and retold the tale, and their children as well. And so on until it was not just a story, but a universal truth.