The article poses the question of, “is new technology making the common American illiterate?” Quite frankly one side of the argument believes that this is a new era of literacy that has not been seen since the Greek era. People believe that people have been writing more than they have ever before. Previously, people used to finish school and never write another piece of text again. Ever since facebook, twitter and text messaging has come about people are writing in excessive amounts. There has never been an era of writing that the human race has seen before like the current one we are in right now.

Are people smarter as a result of all this new writing or are they not using their minds as well because they are not interpreting text?

Why are people so obsessed with new technology and our new style of text?

Does facebook writing actually qualify as informative and intellectual writing?