Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a social eco system where they passed mej messages to each other. What were the wax tablets you talked about . They had devices that looked like like ipads. You might use a wax tablet and you would scratch the message or a describe scribe would do it and the recipient would bring it back to you. Cicero refers to this as roman texting. It was a note pad as well and people used them to learn to write. They are the same size as the ipad. And dollar there was a lot of examples of people depicted holding