People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
I don't even hear radio anymore.
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.
There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.
I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.
Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
