This blog post is Part 3 in what has just become a three part series dealing with CouchSurfing. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you are unfamiliar with CouchSurfing or at all curious about its social significance.

Articles like this one frustrate me, because they consider intergenerational shifts in etiquette as failings on the part of younger people.  In fact, Marc Bauerlein seems to ignore the fact that etiquette does change over time. He starts off by telling us some statistics about the ways in which young people communicate:

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