Before it was FB/Internet/Phone games, it was TV, so we're perhaps just continuing further down a well worn path. See Roger Water's underrated Amused to Death

Before it was FB/Internet/Phone games, it was TV, so we're perhaps just continuing further down a well worn path. See Roger Water's underrated Amused to Death album or the book that inspired it Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.