"my trampy little sister says myspace is the new booty call"

of course you are welcome to watch the whole trailer, but the section i want to point out in particular begins at 2:10.  drew barrymore's character says "i had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so i called him at home, and then he emailed me to my blackberry, and so i texted to his cell.  and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. it's exhausting!"  when i think about all of the technology out there in the world today i could not think of a better way to describe than what drew barrymore said in this movie.  many people say the world is becoming "flat" because everything is so interconnected through technology that you can almost instantaneously communicate with basically anywhere in the world at any moment.  i was talking to my sister one time and we were talking about all of the different ways that we had to get in touch with one another.  we had phone calls, text messages, the heytell walkie talkie application on the iphone, the kik messenger application on the iphone, facetime on the iphone, skype, ichat, google video, 2 different email address apiece, facebook wall post, message, or chat, myspace, xanga, aol instant messanger, and google instant messanger.  and i'm sure we could probably continue to add more to that list.  all those different channels for two people to communicate.  the world really is becoming "flat," so to speak.
this really got me thinking.  i realize for the convenience factor that all of this technology is a good thing, but what about for the other aspects of our lives. with all this technology to hide behind, we don't really ever have to interact with people face-to-face if we don't want to.  sure you can pretty much personalize the output on all of the aforementioned channels of communication but nothing can compare to level of interaction you receive in a face-to-face situation.  with all this technology we don't even have to be ourselves or let people get to know the real us.  i realize that sometimes it is easier to communicate through all of these different channels in the short run, but isn't it hurting our face-to-face social skills in the long run? pretty soon people aren't going to know how to hold a conversation with someone in the same room without text messaging them.