Very
good points brought out in your article.  We do have a tendency to hide
behind our computer screens and lose sight of the benefits of face to
face networking.  I think those skills should be kept up also in order
to achieve a good healthy balance in your networking regimen.  To keep
in touch with the real world once in a while would probably be a pretty
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Yep this is very interesting and i want tell you everyone people participate in social works because it's humanity and in the first place of nowadays it's normally behavior in the most guys so he should be do this.

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Please see the movie, IDIOCRACY. That would be our future if future generations lose their social abilities.

Yeah, but they won't lose their electrolytes.

I think the most serious problem faces those in early in their social development, as opposed to anyone over 15 or so.

There's no point in outlining what I've already written here: Social Problems of Social Media

The telephone is ruining social interaction! People will never talk to each other face to face AGAIN! Oh wait the US Postal Service is ruining everything-- people will never talk to each other AGAIN! Oh wait the invention of the written word, that is ruining everything-- people will never talk to each other again! Oh wait language is ruining everything-- people will never grunt & groom each other again! Oh wait this is a dumb moral panic caused by people who have a dim & false view of their salad days. The past was not halcyon, clear your maudlin nostalgia. Kids are the same today as they ever were, except they don't loose as many fingers in the factory (in America).

CHILL OUT PEOPLE.

"the kids growing up with the internet and cell phones may have a hard time with things like empathy and social cues."

i find adults also lack empathy and social cues too. we're all doomed.

This would be a logic fail.

Well, it's something I've noticed.

it has nothing to do with person-to-person social skills. it's wonderfully something new, altogether.

The biggest problem with kids is usually the parents.

Currently, parents are way too permissive and tolerate way more shit than any parents I remember when I was growing up.

"...are weak with the face-to-face human contact skills."

Who you calling weak? If you ever say that in my face I'm going to punch you out.

Or just trash him all over the internet.

I feel like more of the issues with kids communicating now has more to do with parents being afraid and not letting their kids run amok like they used to. Maybe it's just where I grew up, but I'm pretty sure the majority of my social skills were formed learning to get along with the large number of kids in my neighborhood, older, younger and my own age. Obviously there are places where that just isn't possible. But even the neighborhood where I grew up, if you go back to visit, you don't see kids running around anymore. They're all inside. How are they going to learn anything if they're never allowed to do anything on their own? I'm only in my late 20s - it's not like it's been that long since I was a kid myself. From the age of 5 or so I was pretty much allowed free run of my neighborhood, so long as I always told my parents where I was going. Number of times I was abducted/murdered: 0. Things I learned about nature, fun and people: LOTS.

As for Facebook, well, if their parents are keeping them in the house anyway, better they socialize via the interwebs than not socialize at all.

In recent years I've met more teens & college-age adults with poor verbal skills, in particular maintaining a decent, basic conversation for a more than a couple of minutes. However, like a previous poster said, it's too soon to tell how good or bad this change in communication is.

Where's the box for "too soon to tell"?

Social interaction will certainly be different for this generation, but if they're *all* interacting the same way *and* it helps them communicate quickly, efficiently, and effectively, whose to say whether that's good or bad? It may be bad for *our* relationships with *them*, but it may be better for their generation as a whole.

I am not convinced an inability to write and speak in complete sentence or being without social cues can ever truly be beneficial to our society.

Subjective opinion: I have never once gotten laid via the internet. So no, it doesn't help.