From the Kept-Up Academic Librarian - http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2006/06/dependence_on_t.html

An article complaining that students are becoming too dependent on text communication. Wasn't the worry less than 10 years ago, since students were always watching TV, that they would be unable to communicate in print? Which way do you want it?

Or, do worries about young people always sell more newspapers? Or, did the worried stories sell newspapers back when people had to pay for them?

This smacks to me, having not read the article, in good blogger fashion, of people from one paradigm looking incorrectly at people in the new paradigm. Okay, I went and read it, and I still think the same thing. A few anecdotes from a few people (including, of course, Lindsey Lohan) make a disturbing new trend.