Caroline Moss, a writer for Business Insider, says her high school alma mater almost has done away with school dances entirely. Why? The kids can’t be bothered to attend; they’re too busy texting each other.

“Kids don’t need to go to a dance to interact with each other when they can sit on their beds with their laptops and phones and text them,” says the school’s assistant principal Lisa Kor. “It’s basically like being with that person. You don’t have to show up to a dance hoping to see someone anymore. You literally can Snapchat them and see them on Snapchat.”

The school now sponsors just one dance: the annual prom. (Slate)

Paul Asay has covered religion for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for Plugged In and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He lives in Colorado Springs with wife Wendy and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.