Facebook makes for better writers, says teacher.

Facebook makes students emotionally better writers, writes high school English teacher Andrew Simmons on The Atlantic. The social media giant especially helps boys, as young men are opening up and becoming more introspective and honest online, and that transfers over to their school writing.

Simmons also notes that students are still a train wreck with incomplete sentences, lack paragraphs, and use emoticons within their essays.

But are they emotionally better emoticons? That's the real question here.