How do you use media?

The face of media is ever changing, much like our world today.

How often do you pick up the phone to call someone vs. sending them a text? Newspapers are going digital, are magazines next? People read books on hand held devices and listen to music 24/7 thanks to internet radio and MP3 players.

When does it become to much? Is facebook getting over saturated? I have friends who are done and closing their facebook accounts. They don't want to patrol what people know about them and don't. I police my phone calls. (That is different than screening them, please don't be offended next time you call me and I don't pick up.) I don't like to ALWAYS be available. When I am busy my phone is on silent or vibrate. Who wants to be annoyed by random ring-tones anyway, not me!

What is going to happen in the future? Well there is the theory that people could interact through media, but never actually interact with each other face-to-face. I think that is a sad and extreme thought. There is still something about face-to-face interaction that I can't get from my computer/internet, cell phone, or iPod. While marketers are trying to figure out how to interact more with consumers using these modern media outlets, I wonder if eventually we will all take a step back and think, what were we doing? Do all those anti-cell phone people have it right? I am all for social media. It fascinates me because so much is still unknown. But I wonder if it is the new end all be all or just a fad passing through.