Regular readers of this column will know that I am suspicious of cyberspace innovations — from Facebook to MySpace to Second Life — that substitute the accumulation of “friends” for actual friendship, ...

This might be the answer to why people aren't texting you back Actual text I recently got from my teen daughter: “nooooi those dotty bits on eyelids lowk annoyinghagsh n can you get calrisuns or smth.

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...