He added, “Kids have to learn about emotion, and the way they do that, really, is by paying attention to other people. They have to really look them in the eye.” FaceTime, Skype, and other video chatting services aren’t the same, he found, especially since kids often multitask while using the services and don’t give the person on the screen their full attention. “If you eschew face-to-face communication,” Nass warns, “you don’t learn critical things that you have to learn … You have to learn social skills. You have to learn about emotion.”
