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by PakG1 5679 days ago
We're only catching up to Japan, that's all. ;) For better or worse....

"It used to be you would get on the train with junior-high-school girls and it would be noisy as hell with all their chatting,” Yumiko Sugiura, a journalist who writes about Japanese youth culture, told me. “Now it’s very quiet—just the little tapping of thumbs.”

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/03/realtime_kills.php