[throwawaycopy]

Did you read the article? The author addresses and counters this notion that digital socializing brings us together.

See, you've put all of your spiritual and ethical eggs in to your technologic worship so you are completely closed off to the notion that smartphones might actually be really horrible. You're basically just defending your own thinly veiled insecurities about how you give your own life meaning.

[sanderjd]

Woah, calm down - I was just expanding on the single comment I replied to.

I'm an old fogey who isn't young or cool enough to have all my eggs in that basket. My eggs are far more in the sitting-around-reading-books-and-newspapers and hiking-in-the-mountains baskets.

But I do think this hysteria is pretty overblown, as your comment demonstrates.

[idanoeman]

That's a very uncharitable assumption about P's comment.