This BBC article says “the decline of handwriting and the rise of e-mail and text messaging has been highlighted in a new survey of media consumption in the digital age.It suggests that half of written communication is by e-mail,29% by text message and just 13% by pen and paper”.Further,”it builds on the BBC’s survey of Daily Life, which has been conducted every 10 years since the 1930s.The results among those aged 15 to 24 who took part showed only 5% of their communications were by pen and paper, a lot lower than the older people”.

E-mail and text ‘replace writing’