Here’s another look at whether the increasing use of the Internet as a communication mechanism will have a negative impact on the socialization of teens. This Boston Globe article has a more balanced tone, with good quotes from MIT’s Sherry Turkle, who is founding the Center for Technology and Identity to study how people lives are being affected by the influx of computers. She states that ”The Web is the location where much of the work of adolescence is being done these days.” The article notes that some teens are more self-confident online. Does that translate eventually into real life? Perhaps. Those who don’t believe the critics say that the Internet is just another communication medium which won’t harm the development of children anymore than the phone does. Sure, life is different now than it was a few years ago, but so goes progress.