Is Facebook destroying meaningful conversation?

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37. Lol. I'm sorry but

I've tried everything you've suggested and I'm afraid it's out of my hands. They've all graduated HS at this point.

The 26 YO is the worst of the bunch. She started the behavior once she had already left home. I say something now and then but she hasn't lost the ability, she just doesn't use it.

The other two, well one is my 21 YO man-child who attended school for the learning disabled for 4 years to gain the courage to even try to write. (Severe dyslexia) I will never discourage him from writing, or reading, though I insist on the best possible conversation when we are speaking.

The youngest just finished her first year in college. She lives at home and I'm on her all the time about it. She's just 18 and quite the gifted writer. It is when I read one of her papers that the contrast in her ability to communicate verbally is the most glaring. And, of course I point it out, every time, at the risk of alienating her.

The one thing they have learned from me, at least, is to use full sentences with correctly spelled words when they text, which is a good thing.

I believe this whole thing may be a bigger problem then a lot of people think and it will be to the detriment of "generation text" should they choose to ignore social skills. I also think that soon enough they'll figure out talking is more efficient than writing on a day to day, moment to moment, basis and some will find they need to catch up to both the generations before and after theirs.