Texting

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/technology/29drill.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

This happens to be another prime example why people from the M-Generation cannot hold a verbal conversation. They are so used to texting what they want to say they'd rather not call someone to communicate when they can short hand it with T9 Word. It wasn't bad enough that everyone and their grandmother had a cell phone a few years ago, but now kids will text their elders instead of doing the courtesy call to check in.