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Column: Obsessed with texting, and here's why

A year ago Elaine Gu didn't understand why people were into texting. Wouldn't a phone call be simpler? To satisfy her curiosity, she signed up for a basic texting plan. Now she gets it. Like AIM a decade ago, texting is yet another revolution in the way we communicate, and it's not going away anytime soon.

Internet "addiction"

Most American high schools students, and all Uni students, use the Internet to communicate with others. Whether it be e-mail, IM, MySpace, or Facebook, communication through the Internet is completely familiar for us.

But indirect communication doesn’t stop at the computer, for there are all sorts of cell phone phenomena that allow us to talk with each other without speaking out loud.

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