Does Technology Kill Empathy?

I believe that technology does kill empathy because in today's society we have become so reliable on our phones to communicate. It's much easier to just send a text message or call someone on the phone rather than actually meet them face to face. However, when were sending text messages on our cell phones it is really hard to depict the tone of messages and understand the emotion in the text message compared to actually meeting face to face where you can easily figure out the tone that person is speaking in and understand the emotion of their message. Technology definitely has its benefits, however we can't really on it too much when trying to communicate because face to face human interaction is still very important.