What effects, if any, do our current methods of socialization have on the types and quality of social interactions?

Last week we studied various agents of socialization, including the family, school, peer groups, the mass media, and technology. With specific regard to technology, primarily the Internet and social and mass media, what differences exist between contemporary agents of socialization and those that your parents and grandparents may have experienced?

What effects, if any, do our current methods of socialization have on the types and quality of social interactions?