A look at how teenagers of today are more in cyber-contact with each other and how the cyberized world has made everything so different.

Does this mean that kids of today will not ever need to meet some people and find out what they 'really' are like? Will the concept of what a person 'really' is take on a whole new cyber-meaning?

Much like my chatting days when I used to chat in the then-new chat world of rediff, I had theorised that chatting with people was like using just one dimension of communication.

Was I wrong? Do the new means of communication actually make us more communicative? Are we emoting better? Do we understand each other better? Are cyber-friends more likely to stay friends forever and will cyber-partnerships and cyber-relationships evolve into stronger bonds than *gasp* marriage?

I shudder to think of the consequences of all this. But then, maybe I am just an old fogey. After some calm deep-breathing exercises, I think all of this cyber-whatever will settle down into just one more means of communicating - just like the telephone augmented our ability to stay in touch while never really replacing the warmth of a hand-shake or a kiss.