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Name: Linda Martindale
From: North Carolina
Bio: self-taught web designer
Area of Expertise: Author/Editor/Journalist
Topic: Community/Culture
Headline: American’s Stop Speaking –Turning to Text Messageing
Nutshell: We become so enamored with cell phones and the email capacity for cell phones that we forget how to have a normal conversation.
Vision:We see it already on television in commercials. Instead of speaking quietly to someone, we text-message them on their cell phones. With the advent of more sophisticated features, the cell phone is fastly becoming the new technique for communication.
As time goes by, more and more people will start text-messaging people across rooms and next door. The simple art of neighbors visiting will be gone as people refuse to leave their houses and use their cell phone instead.
Date Submitted: November 11, 2004
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