Texting and deteriorating face to face communication skills. When we text we have time to think, erase, change the idea we are trying to convey/communicate to the other person. When you are talking to someone in person, you don't have the luxury of thinking for 5 mins about what exactly you want you message to say, editing it etc. You must think on your feet in conversation and it's a skill that we are slowly losing. Source:Try to spark up conversations with college classmates, about varying topics, anything from aliens to politics and anything in between. Always receive one or two sentence responses or "I'm not sure that's a tough one" after giving them 300 words of my own thoughts. I quit using social media after I realized the amount of misinformation and overall ignorance spread on it. But continued to text friends, read news etc Until just last semester when I was shoulder to shoulder with 80 other students in a full classroom, in a Junior level major course (meaning I've seen 20-30 of these people in my previous classes) and not a soul was talking. And no this wasn't a morning class lol. That was the day I decided I didn't want to be a phone zombie, and stopped using my phone in public all together. Stumbled upon Reddit a few weeks ago and was intrigued by the amount of cool and interesting stuff on here. Saw this and had to create an acct, hopefully I don't come across as a technology hater, which is not true. The technology at our fingertips instantly gives us infinite knowledge, but if you really think about it, it is still very young. Who's to say that infinite amount of information isn't hurting us long term?