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My 14-year-old daughter and her friends text each other constantly. Even when they’re all gathered together in the food court at the mall their skinny fingers are blurs upon their touchpads. The dispatches are going nowhere but to the iPhones on the other side of the Coke cups and the pizza crusts, and they spend much more time texting than reading the texts they receive. This is not because typing takes longer than reading, which I’m not sure it does for the digital generation. The girls already know the message, the message being “I’m texting.”
-P.J. O'Rourke
