Addicted much?

I decided to count up the amount of information I usually acces within... around an hour and a half of getting home. Here's what it averagely looks like:

Blog Entries Read/Viewed:

- Neatorama: 21

-CuteOverload: 5

-I Can Has Cheezburger: 5

-TechEBlog: 4

-Daily Puppy:1

-- Total: 36

Comics Read:

-Questionable Content: 1

-Yu+Me: 1

Communications:

- Emails recieved: 4

-Facebook messages: 2

-Facebook Friends Requests: 1

-Myspace messages: 1

-Myspace bulletins read: 5

-Livejournal entries read: 2

- Instant Messaging conversations: 4

Miscellaneous:

-Links followed off of Ebaum's World: 2

-Videos watched: 1

-Games of Tetris played: 1

That's quite a lot of information to absorb, especially everyday. And being a true digital age kid, I don't even read what you'd call real blogs. TechEBlog is the closest, reporting technological advancements, such as new games, cars, cellphones and MP3 players. Neatorama is literally a random blog, with links, pictures and videos. And the rest are nothing but pictures.

The way I see it, many of us digital agers approach the internet much like television. We want quick, spastic entertainment. Why focus on reading a lengthy entry if we can just skim it? Why actually read at all when we can look at pictures and watch videos?

I've also been thinking: how has this attitude affected my writing, or the writing of those around me? A recent poll showed that one in four Americans read no books in the past year. We're more interested in movies and television for our narratives. If we want to read, we'll skim a magazine, maybe read a short blog entry. Even as a writer I've found myself becoming lazy. I know for a fact I don't read near as much fiction or poetry as I should. Is the Digital Age slowly sapping our love of writing? How will writing, and writing habits, be changed as technology evolves? Can't they just work together and get along?