Crap article. Loose thinking and loose writing. Examples: 5) Punctuality Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to

Crap article. Loose thinking and loose writing. Examples: 5) Punctuality Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of throwaway rudenesses of the connected age. Texting is not "the internet". The ubiquity of free, hard-core pornography on the web has put an end to one of the most dreaded rights of passage for teenage boys – buying dirty magazines. A right of passage is an agreement that someone has the right to pass through a certain area of land (usually to get to their own land). A rite of passage is a ritual. The author no doubt meant the latter. 10) Watches Scrabbling around in your pocket to dig out a phone may not be as elegant as glancing at a watch, but it saves splashing out on two gadgets. Again, phones != internet. Phones had clocks on them long before they had web access. This could have been a moderately interesting article, but unfortunately it was just gimmicky hot air.