Communication Technology (My Blogs Don't Count)

Communication technology is so entrenched in our lives that no one thinks twice when a classmate texts under the table during a biology lab, but we all feel blasphemed when someone deletes his or her Facebook profile.

In fact, in a survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 84 percent of teens reported to owning a desktop or laptop computer, a cell phone, a PDA, or a similar personal media device. That’s a lot of texting, IMing, and other high-tech communicating going on- sad, when we remember only 30 percent of 8th graders read at or above the “proficient” level.

This obsession with impersonal communication is pretty weird. According to this study, a greater percentage of high school seniors go online than graduate. Ouch.

-Catherine Cai|VOX staff