Young People Aren't Making Phone Calls Anymore... They're Texting

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Young People Aren't Making Phone Calls Anymore... They're Texting Kids, you've heard of phone calls, right? Did you know that there's an app on your smartphone that lets you talk out loud to family and friends? Ask your grandparents about it. We're being facetious, but it's true that the stereotype of a chatty teen or young adult spending hours talking on the phone is fading. Those interactions are being replaced by the image of a kid hunched over a handset, tapping out texts, emails, or Facebook messages. Here's What Apple's Original iPad Prototype Looked Like Now You See Him, Now You Don't Windows 8 Release Date Gets Official AT&T To Offer New Data Plans Facebook Satisfaction Tanks.. BLOG POSTS Naveen Jain: "Inliers": Why Non-Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation And while experts will have a part to play in solving today's looming crises where incremental evolution is needed, I believe that non-expert individuals will drive disruptive innovation. Here's why. Stephen Balkam: Digital Teens and the Three T's It would certainly change the culture of deception that leads kids and many of their parents to lie about their dates of birth to join social networking sites in the first place and provide a much safer environment for tweens who are already there in droves. Bethy Hardeman: 4 Ways Smartphones Will Replace Brick-and-Mortar Banks New technology, along with America's growing acceptance of the digital wallet, means it won't be long before most of us are reaching for our cell phones to pay the cashier. Elizabeth Krupka: Not FBO (Facebook Official) Anymore About eight weeks ago I had one of the roughest breakups I thought I would ever have to go through. Tears were shed, memories felt lost, and I felt so lonely. The worst part? Clicking deactivate. Daniel Gulati: The Multitasking Fury For the modern professional, multitasking is an immutable part of daily life. Yet 97% of us are hopeless at it. It's a well-cited observation that juggling two or more things at once depletes our health and harms our productivity.

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