Very true, when you are sending someone a message you are hiding behind a screen. Instead of an instant, 'the first thing that comes to your head' kind of response, it is edited and refined. It certinly is not the same as face-to-face communication.

While this is true, I feel it is also true that people are scared of face-to-face communication. Hell I couldn't take to a girl face to face until high school and even then I struggled, but truth be told - I could text like a boss.

Whether it hurt real communication or not is a debate, but either way messaging is going to happen.