Education Week, November 11, 1998, p. 38
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/11weeks.h18
A director of college guidance at a Maryland boarding school writes that she was initially skeptical of technology and worried that it would replace face-to-face dialogue and interpersonal relationships with anonymous and impersonal computer interactions.
Instead, she writes that she has found technology is actually a catalyst for striking up personal relations with students and colleagues alike.