在近期的《高等教育纪事》杂志的网站上,你会读到这样一则消息:一位少女在1个月里发送了3000条文本信息。这意味着她平均每天发送100条信息,或者每10分钟的谈话时间里就发1条信息。因此,自然而然地,她很难有超过10分钟的独处时间。这意味着她从未独处过——也就是只与她的思想、她的梦想、她的担忧与期望做伴过。纽约大学的约纳森·齐玛曼(Jonathan Zimmerman)教授指出,四分之三的美国青少年都把 On the website of the recent Chronicle of Higher Education, you read the message that a girl sent 3,000 text messages in a month. This means that she sends an average of 100 messages per day, or one message every 10 minutes of conversation. So, naturally, it’s hard to have more than 10 minutes of solitude. This means she has never been alone - that is, only with her thoughts, her dreams, her fears and expectations. Professor Jonathan Zimmerman of New York University points out that three out of four U.S. teenagers