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Your delivery includes your tone of voice, timing and tempo. Communication skills involve our ability to listen. And these days, those classmates can live far away. I find this new label infuriating, especially since I m not quite certain how this happened. If a pattern, or cluster, of indicators exists among the following 23 telltale signs of teenage usage, your suspicions should turn into a preventive action plan.