Where is technology taking us?

The other day I went into the office. I had a BIG task at hand. I had created a marketing strategy and the first promotion was to be sent. The task at hand was to print 1,000 flyers...3 different flyers...1,000 envelopes....1,000 stamps on these envelopes...you get the picture, I'm sure.
I sat in my office with two assistants and stacks of paperwork, stamps, and envelopes. It was to a certain extent quite a bit overwhelming. One of my assistants is 17 years old. When i went to collect her envelopes I realized she had placed the stamp on the left side of each envelope. The crazy thing was that it wasn't done by mistake! She honestly believed that when mailing a letter the stamp goes on the left-hand side of the envelope. Immediately I became curious. How many people within her age range didn't know how to properly mail.....well, mail! So, I left my office and walked over to a group of high school girls and asked them if the could tell me where the stamp, the sender's address, and the receiver's address goes....NON OF THEM KNEW correctly where. They all told me, "Who sends mail anyways when there's email and Internet?" That stop me in my tracks. Most adults know about mail because not only were we taught in school but we pay bills and interact with mail but this younger generation, do they know about mail? ...Aside from email? Everyone seems to be so Internet savvy but no one now-a-days knows how to properly mail?
That reminded me of this situation I had the other day because of texting. I had a small misunderstanding of my own through text and wondered if by having such technological advances are we, in a sense, de-evolving? Through text not only am I not experiencing a person's reactions, facial expressions, etc, I'm also not really exercising my senses and to top that off with all these abbreviations like: ttyl (Talk To You Later) or brb (Be Right Back)etc. our spelling is changing as well. Why does this have my mind going??! Because change in it's self happens gradually and if you take yourself out of the big picture for a sec and really think about it, in changing how we spell and say things we are in essence changing how we as a people communicate with one another. Now that's a BIG deal! How we communicate with each other is how we gather information and eventually how we understand things. Things that are as simple as "Where's the stapler?" to things as complex as how we understand each other.
Is texting now-a-days the new four play? Is Yahoo, Google, and Outlook our new age mailmen? And shouldn't we all know where the hell the stamp goes?!!