Full of sound and fury?

I caught this news story as I signed into my e-mail today:

Thirteen year-old Reina Hardesty's father wasn't "LOL" when he read last month's AT&T cell phone bill. The 440-page statement listed an incredible 14,528 text messages sent in one month.

Um, that works out to be about 484 text messages a day, on average. Yes, a day.

Fortunately, the Hardesty family has a $30/month unlimited texting plan or else this AT&T bill would have been nearly $3,000.

According to a U.S.-based Nielsen study, the average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is about 1,742.

Does this plethora of communication indicate a rising ability to articulate oneself among our teen generation? Or is it a cacophany of "OMG" or "LOL" or "KWIM?"

I think surgeons are going to make a killing in the future with people who have carpal tunnel syndrome because of text messaging.