Is too much communication killing communication?

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Social media provides us with many instant and wide-reaching ways to communicate, but let’s not forget the more old-fashioned but no less important skills like face-to-face conversation and letter-writing.

I WAS greatly amused by a cartoon recently that depicted two angels at the gates to heaven. One was saying to the other: “Have you noticed how the new arrivals these days don’t seem to have much to say to each other, but they all have this strange twitching problem with their thumbs?”