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All these ways to talk increase risks of silence

Facebook, e-mail,Tweets: How much goes into a void?

By MARTHA IRVINE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 3:12 a.m.

With her cell phone nearby, Mahrinah von Schlegel, managing director of Cibola, an incubator for tech entrepreneurs that will open this spring, checks a social-networking site at her office in Chicago.

MARTHA IRVINE
Credit: AP
 With her cell phone nearby, Mahrinah von Schlegel, managing director of Cibola, an incubator for tech entrepreneurs that will open this spring, checks a social-networking site at her office in Chicago.

Technology is supposed to make people easier to reach, and often does. But the same modes of communication that have hooked users on instant replies also can leave them feeling forgotten.

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