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This article tries to think about the influence of the World Wide Web and mobile telephony on the relationships among adolescents (15-19 years old) in a multicultural context on the basis of an empiric qualitative study carried out during 2009. 85 students participated actively in this investigation (75 from Latin America and 10 Spanish ones). They all live in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, a city near Barcelona where more than 25% of the population is made up of immigrants. The main conclusion indicates that the natural tendency among young people is to find friends with similar characteristics (natives with natives and immigrants with immigrants), so that the use of those communication technologies goes in the same direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]