I saw a news story yesterday that really reminded me that this whole “Internet era” can, and is, producing some serious breakdowns in our tradition forms of communication, like talking and junk.

Basically, a teen decided to kill his father because his father wouldn’t let him on MySpace and that was his way of communicating with his friends. You can read the story for yourself, its twisted.

Let me just point out that maybe we need to be careful to make sure that all the wonderful ways of communicating while sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen don’t handicap us and keep us from the more personal forms of communicating that have worked for centuries.

Its just a thought. Here’s to face to face conversation!

(the irony of posting this on a blog hasn’t escaped me)