The Pope is wrong about the Internet and teenagers.

The Pope told some altar servers that “Maybe many young people waste too many hours on futile things.” What are those futile things? According to His Holiness, they include: “chatting on the Internet or with smartphones, watching TV soap operas, and (using) the products of technological progress, which should simplify and improve the quality of life, but distract attention away from what is really important.” Really? These are not futile things. These are the very stuff that teenage life is made of. That glowing screen is the last ship to the mainland of traditional adolescence.