Are we too digital?

Now that you have this wonderful piece of literary pose to peruse at your leisure I had to think to myself: Are we too digital?

Twitter, facebook, myspace, digg, blogs, etc. etc. etc.

Do we really need all of this constant contact? The world became an incredibly smaller place with the introduction of the telegraph and then again when Mr. Morse came up with his wonderful code. Do I relly need to know that Tom Steel took a dump at 9:04, then exactly an hour later at 10:04 and finally at 10:56 in addition to how each one had a different smell and what the difference was? This is just an example and is not based on facts which does not mean I am not laughing my ash off right now.

I first thought this when people would send a text to somebody else IN THE SAME ROOM instead of simply opening their mouth and saying it. 10,000 years of verbal communication and we are now reverting to hand signals?

Don't get me wrong, there are good things about this constant digital diversion, take this news story as an example: