Recently on Twitter I made the following observation: I wish people wouldn’t forget salutations. So many emails & IMs burst at me with information, without a polite Dear; Hello; or Good Morning. And I followed it up with It’s like someone rushing into your house and firing a question at you, without first saying hello. I find it disconcerting. I understand why this has happened. Text messages and IMs have much to do with it. Text messages are limited to 140 characters so dropping even an economical ‘Hi’ makes sense. Most people have smartphones containing all the names and photos of their contacts now, so the majority of the time…