I come and go on various gun, pool, motorcycle, car and other forums. It is simply a matter of what is going on in my life. If I'm looking for or just bought a new bike, I might be on a Harley forum daily for months and then none at all for years. I know to some it is different, but my level of obsession comes and goes with pool. The only point here is people come and go for many reasons.
I have zero interest in Facebook or twitter, and only reluctantly deal with LinkedIn due to my job. I'm sorry to let all of you down...but frankly your lives and what you think about belly button lint are tedious. Just because you have technology where you can tell all your friends that you are really liking your cheeseburger and wanted to share a picture of it....doesn't mean you should. And again, sorry but that YouTube link you sent me did not lead me to something "awesome", "amazing", "hilarious", or that I absolutely had to see. It was just OK and I only say that because I stopped it after 15 seconds so that I wouldn't feel compelled to tell you what an idiotic waste of my time it was.
I'm not antisocial or even grumpy in general.....I just see how these things take over peoples lives and find it moderately sad and very strange. If you are at a live concert....be at a live concert.....don't watch it through your iPhone screen while you record it so you can send the clip to people who aren't there. You're missing the show.
So, no. For me....Facebook and Twitter are not the reason.
I agree with the idea of what you are saying. If I spend 15 minutes a day catching up on Facebook, I tend to see something that makes me laugh for a good part of the day. For example, today I saw a picture of a dude in a Whinnie the Pooh costume. Only he had the pants on backwards and his tail looked like his dick! HA! Well worth my time.