This article from the New York Times talks about the potential negative impacts that the ease of texting and online communication has on children's friendships. While people have been focusing on cyberbullying, we are just starting to think about how things like friendship are going to be affected. This article reminds me of the one we read in class that talked about Facebook and how the number of people one can have a relationship with is growing. Though they are worried that these technologies are preventing children from having intimate friendships, research on this phenomenon has only begun. The impact of this would not only be loss of close friendships, but also the method through which we learn things like empathy.
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