Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, September 06, 2009

I believe

that there's going to be a huge social cost to pay as a result of all this non-visual/non-verbal communication.

Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues

"An emphasis on social networking puts younger people at a face-to-face disadvantage."
Can you believe that? By approximately the end of 2008 teens with cell phones sent and received an average of 2272 text messages a month! Still, my sarcastic side says that it makes sense if you listen to some of them speak. They're pretty unintelligible when they enter into verbal conversation...


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