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young people do communicate with each other a lot more with cell phones. The texting is the way they do it. From a writer/literacy and numeracy perspective I hate it that they dumb down their language skills. "r u ok" sort of stuff. I guess if they are at school and it's backed up with good language education, it may not be bad. They can get support from more than one person at a time, seem to lose their inhibitions when then are attached to a cellphone (I can see good and bad in that). But they are losing too communication skills - face to face, eyeball to eyeball sort of communication. Some have their faces hidden under hats and hair and can't look at you to speak. All caused my cell phones? Not helped by cellephones I suspect.

Elly

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But I readily admit that there are limits. I've never text'd since it's not part of my family's phone plan.

I think the upside to speaking to text would be for situations where the message won't be received immediately or where it's about some specific information (like a homework assignment) that would need to be written down, anyway. It's easier to copy something written down than something spoken.

-'Dee

Too expensive, too much hype on it being a status symbol, too much driver error because of it and unless it's an emergency everything can wait until I get home.
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slightly bizarre. I can't be bothered texting. I like email as an alternative to the phone but speaking into your phone in order for it to be turned into text that can be read on the receiving phone? I see so many people walking the streets, staring at their precious little screens I wonder if anyone still bothers to go and actually visit someone, in real life as opposed to virtual contact. But then, like you, deorre, I often fear that I've turned into an old fart..