Report Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills.

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(CNN) -- FaceTime, the Apple video-chat application, is not a replacement for real human interaction, especially for children, according to a new study.

Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television and text messaging are more likely to develop social problems, says a Stanford University study published in a scientific journal on Wednesday.

Young girls who spend the most time multitasking between various digital devices, communicating online or watching video are the least likely to develop normal social tendencies, according to the survey of 3,461 American girls aged 8 to 12 who volunteered responses.

The study only included girls who responded to a survey in Discovery Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' emotional development is more difficult to analyze because male social development varies widely and over a longer time period, he said.

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For males, we are doomed. We will be deprived of female partners in our future.
 

Switch33

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Sounds probably right. Doesn't matter though. I rather keep multitasking even if i might be lacking in "social skills," whatever merit that offers.
 

JerseyFoo

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For males, we are doomed. We will be deprived of female partners in our future.

Silly. Awkward males will just find awkward females. Females actually outnumber males on the Internets now. And Chrome is now #1 effectively; although it will probably take years for it to be official.
 

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Meh, if they can get hooked onto all those, they're not worth chasing after.
(Although, I will admit that I was addicted to the TV when I was younger.)
 
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