Shy people are just 'differently social' and AI can help

During the three years I've spent researching and writing about shyness, one of the most common questions people ask is about the relationship between shyness and technology. Are the internet and the cellphone causing our social skills to atrophy? I often hear this from parents of shy teenagers, who are worried that their children are spending more time with their devices than with their peers. The shy aren't necessarily antisocial; they are just differently social. They learn to regulate their sociability and communicate in indirect or tangential ways.