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Is Texting Bad for Teens? - We talk with Rob Pegoraro, tech columnist from the Washington Post, about the habit of using short-hand communication, and its effects on young peoples' English skills. Rob also explains how the texting generation might even benefit from using written communication all the time. Will video and audio messaging ever beat out texting as the dominant form of messaging? Rob answers this question and more.

Guests include:

Rob Pegoraro, Tech Columnist for the Washington Post

Rob Pegoraro writes the Fast Forward column, a weekly look at computers, the Internet and consumer electronics, and the Help File Q&A feature. Online, he writes the Faster Forward blog, records a weekly podcast and hosts Web chats.  Pegoraro has been with the Post since 1993, in which time he has sorted mail and answered phones, written for many other sections (so far, his byline has shown up in National, Metro, Style, Sports, Health, Food, Home, Weekend, Real Estate, Sunday Arts, Sunday Source, Travel, Book World and the Magazine), and made it on the front page exactly once.

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