Progress?

Any technology that is built for the purpose of making life easier has the danger of making us lazy inherently built into it. We get lazier about the things we were trying to do better (or faster) and start getting more hectic about a whole bunch of other things. Text messaging is a great way to speed up organizing plans and other shit, but it breeds this whole world of text-life.
Similarly, we recently were in San franscisco. A couple of the guys were staying with a friend of ours who had an amazing house with not only a balcony, but a pool and a hot tub. We went out one night and picked up this group of girls, bringing them back to our friend's place with promises of alcohol, pools, and hot tubs. One of the girls seemed to have a fun time (she hooked up with the host), but the other two girls, hanging out with a bunch of cool guys with drinks, a balcony, a pool, and a hot tub, decided to sit down and watch mtv. Now, regardless of what you want to do with the people you're with, which is fine, why would you waste your time in such an exciting place watching fucking mtv? Maybe if you spend too much time on facebook you forget how to talk to people in real life.
My point in this is just that technology makes this substantial change in what things you are and aren't doing with your time, what things you are too busy with, and which ones you are lazy about. But it shouldn't be making these choices for you. You can choose whatever combination you want for yourself, but when someone or something else is making that choice for you, there might be a problem.