TEMPO.CO, USA - Typing on mobile phones (texting) and computer keyboard will impact onto handwriting skill, affecting its beauty that will eventually be lost in time.
Rin Hamburgh wrote on The Guardian that technology seems to have ruined our collective handwriting ability. The digital age, with its typing and its texting, has left us unable to jot down the simplest of notes with anything like penmanship. A third of us can't even read our own writing, let alone anyone else's. But does it matter? Well, some people think so.
In the United States, National Handwriting Association realized this concern, setting January 23 as the National Handwriting Day which aims "to raise awareness of the importance of handwriting as a vital component of literacy".
Several arguments popped up to defend handwriting, mentioning it as a form of art, history, culture, and media of expression. Another reason is that to help coordinate the hand-eyes motor skill.
RINA ATMASARI | THE GUARDIAN
