I just read a book by Sherry Turkle called Alone Together. It's about social technology's cheapening of our connections. First she discusses robots that people have accepted as interactive beings, tending or being tended to by them. Then she discusses social media's objectifying of humanity. Her biggest concern seems to be that we've exchanged true, quality communication and relationships for banal inauthentic comments on facebook or role playing that keeps us from knowing and improving our true selves and our friendships in the real world.
I think she has a good point, though you'd think it would have occurred to her before now as not that long ago she was far more positive about social technology. But it is interesting how I've even observed friends who were particularly enthusiastic about making a difference and having an impact through social media who've since dumped it for more reading time and real life time. Also, it seems, most or at least many, parents limit their kids' screen time, intuitively realizing that what their kids really need is to develop themselves in the real world.
The internet can be a tool that we let shape us or that we allow ourselves to be duped by into thinking something is true that isn't. It can also, however, be a tool that we use to our advantage and that we control, rather than vice versa.
But as is so often the case, what is required is that we aren't a slave to the popular or obsessed with our image over our character, our true person. And it may require divine intervention to help us differentiate between what is true and what isn't.