Networking Socially

There is the constant concern voiced that the internet is going to ruin our young people's ability to socialize. That they are going to become interpersonally crippled, only able to text other in short bursts of cryptic acronyms.

This last Friday I had to take clothes over to my son who was spending the second night with a friend, and that fear was put to rest for me.

When I came in, four teen age boys were sitting around the computer screen surfing YouTube. They were laughing, all talking at once, so excited to show me the goofy little shorts that they found, arguing about control of the keyboard in their enthusiasm.

Seemed a definite improvement over T.V. to me. Perhaps this writers strike wasn't such a bad thing after all.