literacy+tech= lost communication

I think technology is so important to literacy now a days because technology is EVERYWHERE. Technology is so important because it is a part of everyday life. Kids are in front of computers, playing video games, and listening to their ipods. Technology is changing literacy because it is in all of these aspects, reading, writing and comprenhension, are used in this technologies. Even a new language was created, kids used text message language that was a way to make speaking quicker. But still text messages aren’t quick enough so they have a language to text message. I think technology helps literacy because students are reading online or reading computer game instructions. But I think it also hurts literacy because communication is suffering. Kids are so used to text messaging their writing suffers because it is not correct. Also, social I think a child suffers because communication is lacking human contact. Our society has strayed away from face to face contact that when kids have to deal with social issues they don’t know how to because they are used to typing to a computer screen.