"When the whole family is staring at screens, time to try a tech detox," so concludes a timely Wall Street Journal article.
Update 1/23/11 - The U.K. Guardian posted an interesting article: "Social Networking Under Fresh Attack..." (HT: Drudge) Paul Harris writes:
The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist.
"A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological," MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, which is leading an attack on the information age. [more . . .]