Today’s students live in a hyper-accelerated communications culture and may actually have a diminished concept of friendship. This cheapening is typified by a type of cell phone banter that goes something like this: “Hey, what’re you up to? …I might catch up with you later.”

The second phrase reveals quite a bit about the changing definition of friendship. The meaning translates to, “I’m not willing to commit my evening to you because I might end up with a better offer. However if I don’t come up with anything else, I might be back in touch and you could become part of my evening.”

How dreadful.