The Guardian - Step away from your phone: The new rules of conversation

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In this article, Oliver Burkeman discusses texting in today's society - and how it has become the most used way of communication. Burkeman mentions the fact that people are beginning to text each other even when they are fact-to-face. He suggests that we are even beginning to lose our sense of empathy and feeling when we are having a face-to-face conversation and that today's society don't even know how to communicate in ways other than texting. To sum up Burkeman's ideas, 'why speak face-to-face when you can put it all in a text?'. Burkeman says that he finds it rude when people are texting when in the company of others, and mentions the games some people play when they're out for dinner to ensure that there is real time conversation. People who enjoy and take part in face-to-face conversation are becoming the minority, according to Oliver Burkeman, and he suggests that we are going to lose our real time communication completely if texting to this degree continues.