Social Media Desocializing

I recently have been trying to intentionally call more relatives and friends out of a personal conviction.  Interestingly enough, I read this article today and it sums up a lot of my feelings.  When you remove the ironic brown nosing of relatives for hopes of an inheritance setting to the article, the point is very sharp and clear.  Social media is eating away at our ability to be publicly social.  We can be overly interactive on sites like Facebook and Twitter but completely isolated, very alone, and lacking the ability to interact in social environments.  I don't believe (much to the opposition of my New Englander blood) that we were designed to be a society/world full of individuals/loners.  If we were, why did God create the family? Though the article is a little humorous in it's delivery, it's still worth thinking about the influence of the social networking screen in our lives.