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Katie Rosman of the WSJ on the demise of the phone call: The Texting Revolution Is Here

This is so true!

Texting’s rise over conversation is changing the way we interact, social scientists and researchers say. We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact. Rather than make plans in advance, we engage in what Rich Ling, a researcher for the European telecom company Telenor and a professor at IT University in Copenhagen who studies teens and technology, has named “micro-coordination”—”I’ll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt.”

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