In the 1970s, the syndicated children's television program Big Blue Marble often invited viewers to write to them for their own pen pal. The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence (1997), about her childhood which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas, and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become. Other pen pal organizations have survived by embracing the technology of the Internet. Therefore, the pen pal relationships with inmates are still conducted via postal mail.
These sites allow prisoners to place pen pal ads online however, inmates in the United States and most of the world are not permitted to access the Internet. While the traditional snail mail pen pal relationship has fallen into a decline due to modern technology closing the world's communication gap, prison pen pal services have combined technology with traditional letter writing.
Free clubs are usually funded by advertising and profiles are not reviewed, whereas subscription-based clubs will usually not contain any advertising and will have an administrator approving profiles to the database. Organizations can be split into three main categories: free, partial subscription, and subscription-based clubs. Many pen pals meet each other through organizations that bring people together for this purpose. While the expansion of the Internet has reduced the number of traditional pen pals, pen pal clubs can nowadays be found on the Internet, in magazine columns, newspapers, and sometimes through clubs or special interest groups. A pen pal relationship is often used to practice reading and writing in a foreign language, to improve literacy, to learn more about other countries and lifestyles, and to make friendships.
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