Can Social Media Replace Verbal Communication?

If I told you that you couldn’t speak for one month, would you be able to do it? That’s the challenge entrepreneur Clark Harris, aka Silent Clark, has issued to himself as he sets out to raise $100,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by communicating only via social media channels.

The regularly chatty Clark started what he is dubbing “The Social Media Experiment,” where he will talk to friends, family, strangers and even his wife, only through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and Google Chat.