[pconner]

Why should people have to deal with something unpleasant when a tool could be created to avoid it?

Do you refuse to use any form of powered transportation because it makes people terrible at handling the complexities of walking?

[toomuchtodo]

I'm against technology abstracting away the difficulties of social interaction, for its own benefit (to get you to spend more time on Facebook), to the detriment of social skills.

[pconner]

Is it necessarily to the detriment of social skills, though, or is it just a reflection of the evolution of what social skills are relevant to modern life?

People have made similar arguments against the use of internet social communications because of its negative impact of its negative impact on language, but such fears are unfounded and prescriptivist. [1]

Social norms evolve all the time. Just because new norms are unfamiliar doesn't mean that they're inherently "wrong."

[1]: http://www.vnews.com/news/nation/world/18662871-95/internet-...