I blame Steve Jobs for this. In 2007, he announced the arrival of the one device that would eventually rule our lives: the iPhone (that’s simply smartphone for us, non-Apple fans :D)

Watch the excerpt of his introduction below and witness the genesis of the smartphone’s dominance of our waking hours.

Back in the day, social media was more of a place to find long lost friends and socialize online. These days, though, social media seems to be more about debates and ugly conversations, especially when it comes to religion and politics.

We all know of friends who stopped talking with each other because of intense disagreement on social media. I personally know of former friends and neighbors who got their circle of friends all caught up in their online feud.

Maybe, social media is making us unsocial and we’re just too deep into it to notice. The TedX video below says as much.