Texting generation doesn't share boomers' taste for talk. Jane Beard and Jeffrey Davis didn't realize how little they speak to their children by phone until they called AT&T to switch plans.
The customer service agent was breathless. The Silver Spring couple had accumulated 28,700 unused minutes. "None of the kids call us back! They will not call you back," said Beard, a former actress who with her husband coaches business leaders on public speaking. A generation of e-mailing, followed by an explosion in texting, has pushed the telephone conversation into serious decline, creating new tensions between baby boomers and millennials -- those in their teens, 20s and early 30s. Letters of Note. Oral expression. Quintilian, First Century, Boyer, 1987, E.M. Forster To participate actively in our society individuals must be able to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately in a variety of modes and to employ reasoned analysis to interpret and structure arguments.