Talk may be messy and old fashioned but......

" We are becoming so used to connection...accelerated, superficial and brief... That encountering arguments or states of feeling which are complicated, as life tends to be, can be a shock to the system. In online life you like or you don't and then you move on. That approach infects real life. Feelings that are tricky to express lose out to the online equivalent....thumbs up or thumbs down. Because conversation provides real emotion and thought...it needs to be protected. Any serious meeting should start with a request to turn off all mobile phones. Real conversation is important for our sanity and our happiness. An excess of online chat will make us lonelier, less kind to one another and more self obsessed. The best of human thought and feeling risks getting lost in the roaring silence of online connection."