Today's teenagers social abilities

Nowadays teenagers tend to contact people by phone or by the computer but, is it good for them losing face-to-face interaction?

I think that even though it's useful to chat on the internet or speak on the phone, in a  long period of time it will damage their social abilities and it will be harder for them to interact with someone in real life. A lot of people use the internet to meet new people because it's easier and maybe because they're shy, but if they get used to this _ it will be harder for them to meet and keep a regular conversation with people in a face-to-face interaction that might damage their own social life and close into themselves which would make it harder for them to face situations that demand social abilities. This problem is also related to internet addiction, which makes teenagers' social competence problem higher.

To sum up, I think it's not bad to use technology to talk to other people as long as it doesn't have negative effects on teenagers' social lives.