Video "Relationships"

In class we watched a video called "Relationships." It was pretty much an informative/documentary on how our world is evolving more and more towards technology. People play video games all the time and more connected to the virtual world rather than the real world. That is is really scary! I'm aware that we are only on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, and many other social networks hours and hours, but it's scary to know that we are on these websites 24/7. Because really we are on them 24/7 with our iPhones we are on them all the time because we have the apps for them. During class people are "tweeting" or on Facebook. Once we get on the computer or start playing a video game our minds are fully immersed in the activity and tend to block everything else out. People that are video games and playing with other people from around the world start to consider those people their "friends," even though they have not actually met them in person. There's no physical interaction, so how can that be considered a relationship at all?
The video went on to talk about "Second Life," a virtual world where people create virtual person of themselves and interact with people from all over the world. The film said, "...technology has separated us over the last fifty years and it's just bringing us back together." How is that true? I don't think it's bringing us back together, but rather separating us even more. How can we develop communicational skills when we don't actually communicate physically with one another? We spend more time in a virtual world than in our own realities. The company IBM, uses the program "Second Life" and state that they would save millions of dollars in using the program than flying out to a different country or state for a meeting. There's economic incentive in using the program for companies, but at the same time don't people realize that the actual world and the virtual world are starting to become one world. If our brains tell us something is real then it's real. We are deceived by our surroundings and our brains are starting to not distinguish between the real world and the virtual world.