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For 5,500 years, handwriting has been central to human communication. But new research suggests Generation Z may be the first to lose it.

A University of Stavanger study reports that about 40 per cent of young people born between the late 1990s and early 2010s struggle to communicate effectively by hand.

Experts warn this isn’t trivial: handwriting is linked to memory, comprehension and the ability to form coherent arguments.

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Generation Z Is Losing A Skill We’ve Had For 5,500 Years: 40% Are Losing The Ability To Communicate Effectively

By Rosalia Neve, as published by Evidence Network on 27 September 2025

For thousands of years, writing has been one of the fundamental pillars of human communication, transmitting knowledge, stories and cultures down the ages. However, a new trend is gradually emerging, particularly among Generation Z. These young people, born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, seem to be losing a crucial skill that has been with us for around 5,500 years. According to a study by the University of Stavanger, around 40% of this generation are losing their ability to communicate by handwriting. This phenomenon raises important questions about the evolution of our ability to communicate effectively.

[Note: We were unable to find the study referred to.  It is also mentioned in an article by Indian Defence Review titled ‘Gen Z Is Losing a 5,500-Year-Old Skill That Shaped Civilization – 40% Are Losing Mastery of Communication’, along with other studies.]

Generation Z No Longer Knows How To Write By Hand?

Digital technology has gradually transformed the way we communicate, making handwriting less and less common. From instant messaging platforms to social networks, young people prefer quick exchanges and abbreviations. The keyboard and touch screen have replaced pen and paper in many aspects of daily life. This change is so profound that some experts believe that Generation Z could be the first generation not to master handwriting at a functional level.

Yet handwriting plays a key role in cognitive development. It is linked to skills such as memory and comprehension, because it engages the brain in a different way to typing on a keyboard. This skill, which has shaped human civilisation, is now under threat from the ubiquity of digital technology.

The Implications For Global Communication

According to various studies and the testimonies of professors from several universities, reported by the Turkish newspaper Türkiye Today [last year], young people from Generation Z have so integrated the use of keyboards into their daily lives that they find themselves “bewildered” when they have to revert to handwriting. As with any skill that erodes over time through lack of practice, students are now showing a marked deterioration in their handwriting, which often appears disorganised and difficult to read.

Professor Nedret Kiliceri explained that even university students lack knowledge of the basic rules of handwriting. According to her, students avoid long sentences and no longer write coherent paragraphs. They prefer isolated sentences rather than paragraphs that group together sentences linked by meaning. Students even come to university without pens and use keyboards for everything. The professor sees this as an influence of social media.

What’s more, the loss of handwriting doesn’t just affect the ability to write a letter or a postcard. It has a profound impact on the way Generation Z perceives and interprets the world. Handwriting is often associated with a more thoughtful and personal form of communication, in contrast to the often impulsive nature of digital texts.

Ultimately, the question remains: how will Generation Z, and future generations, balance the digital world with the age-old skills that have shaped our society? The answers to this question will largely determine how we communicate and understand the world in the future.

Featured image taken from ‘Now phone-addicted Gen-Z are losing the ability to use computer keyboards, experts fear’, Daily Mail, 27 August 2024

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Rhoda Wilson
While previously it was a hobby culminating in writing articles for Wikipedia (until things made a drastic and undeniable turn in 2020) and a few books for private consumption, since March 2020 I have become a full-time researcher and writer in reaction to the global takeover that came into full view with the introduction of covid-19. For most of my life, I have tried to raise awareness that a small group of people planned to take over the world for their own benefit. There was no way I was going to sit back quietly and simply let them do it once they made their final move.
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Myme
Myme
20 days ago

Communication is two-way but Gen Z are all mouth, emotion, fists; no brain, ears, eyes, hands, skill or knowledge.
They shout and blame (fight) or self-isolate (flight); never speak, hear, see, lend a hand, learn, carry responsibility or have self-control.

By not using their brains they automatically behave as computers and worse than animals. So quality of all products and services plummeted and lies, theft, violence escalated by Gen Z’s inability to be social.

Islander
Islander
19 days ago

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, (king Charles, take note!) that he shall WRITE him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites; and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment..

Deuteronomy 17:18-20.

When I consider the painstaking lengths, and efforts the scribes and textual scholars throughout the centuries went to in order to preserve His Word, and now see this so-called Gen Z mindlessly glued to their entrapment devices, it fills me with utter despair for them-what hope do they have?

Serge Grenier
Serge Grenier
19 days ago

Smart phones have appeared very fast.

They can disappear even faster.

Young people who are at ease in the virtual world

will have a hard time adapting to the real world

after the virtual reality has collapsed.

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  Serge Grenier
18 days ago

Hi Serge Grenier,
I have read that Afghanistan has cut all internet to it’s people.
When the same happened in Nepal recently, 72 children who were having a demonstration about the cutting of information, were gunned down by police.
Wonder how they are managing without internet and phones.

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  Dave Owen
18 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTOIeDHc5Q
How the taliban treat women.

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
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18 days ago
Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  Dave Owen
17 days ago
Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  Dave Owen
16 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNMrBIZZh8
Ed Miliband has time to play.