Technology is Not Destroying the "Fabric of Our Society"

Most people will agree that spending significant amounts of time online every day is unhealthy. This assumption is so general that it's easy to show that it's false as a tautology. Certainly certain specific activities, such as playing Farmville all day is a waste of time and can be considered unhealthy. However, what if that time is spent, reading, doing homework, and communicating with friends? If these same activities were conducted offline, no sane person would call it unhealthy. It's important to make a distinction between the mode of communication and the specific activities you are involved with. For example, if you are spending the whole day on Facebook, the problem isn't an "internet addiction," but rather, an addiction to  communicating with your friends. Of course anything done in excess  can become a bad thing, but you would hear a lot less hysteria about how "technology is destroying the fabric of our society," if people stopped blaming the mode of communication as opposed to focusing on the detrimental effects of specific activities.