Louis,
Times (and skills) are changing - first penmanship gives way to keyboards and texting...now face to face dialogue to oline networking through blogs, wikis, discussion boards, etc. The cultural shift from pencil/paper and face to face dialogue switching over to computers, cell phones and the Internet is probably not unlike the enormity of the changeover from horse & buggy to automobiles early last century.
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt