Rather texting than talking, blogging instead of sex in the bedroom?

From the exotic world of technology and culture: "I feel more comfortable texting friends, because face-to-face you run out of things to talk about," a 17-year-old American high school senior said. "When you're texting, the conversation doesn't have any awkwardness. And when you run out of things to say, it's over."

Anthropology Professor Jan English-Lueck, who with her colleague, Professor Chuck Darrah, is conducting the Silicon Valley Cultures Project, explains:

Teenagers and early 20-somethings would tell me that things like face-to-face and telephone and even e-mail are a cold medium and you can't trust them, but the way you can really be authentic is through texting and instant messaging.
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You are in more control when you're doing the texting and instant messaging than when you're in a group of people talking at once, with confusing messages that you have to unravel. In a group you're not presenting the real you, you're just reacting.

>> read the whole story in the San Francisco Chronicle

And according to The News & Observer, more and more technology is ending up in the bedroom, "laptops shares couples' most intimate space":

Dr. Enoch Choi, 36, and his wife, Tania, 33, who have been married 10 years, both take laptops to bed to write their blogs. "I suppose I started the trend," said Choi, a physician in Palo Alto, Calif. "But now my wife is just as much the nighty-night PowerBook key-banger, blogging away for her friends."
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Sholes lies in bed and exchanges instant messages with her husband, who is elsewhere in the house on his own computer. "We discuss things, you might even say argue," she said. "The IM will often eliminate a lot of the tone, and we can discuss things a little bit better."

>> read the whole story in The News and Observer

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