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Cameroi wrote:

telling monks use wifi INSTEAD of communicating verbally.
a vow of verbal silence is not a disconnect from all other aspects of life.

nalanuthu monestaries are quite popular for this very reason. no loud anything and not lyrics.
but a quiet keyboard interupts no one's spiritual bonds.

silent field trips and walking meditations are quite popular too.

While this is obviously in reference to your own nation's fiction, I think its worth noting that in most real life religions a vow of silence is about introspection and turning thoughts inwards, and the idea is not to communicate in an outward direction at all. This would include speaking, writing, typing, signing or any other means of sending your thoughts and opinions outwards. The goal is not absence of sound, the goal is absence of self-obsession, and to disconnect yourself from the chaos, distraction, judgements and madness of the world around you.

Not that I endorse such a path myself -- to me, the more communication we have, the stronger we are as human beings, and the complexity and chaos of humanity is a beauty to be embraced, not a distraction to be free of.

Can I encourage you to read this link though? Not because I agree with it's advice, but because the last line isunintentionally hilarious:

https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/Home/other-practices/keeping-silence