Social Networks – are they social?

Are they not sometimes the most anti social things ever invented? Whoever you try to talk to is busy blogging, facebooking, tweeting etc etc.

I’m the middle of a what I think is a nice conversation when suddenely comes a bleep either from a woman’s bag or from a man’s cellphone holder, followed by “Oh sorry I must see this” and a busy busy busy thumbs flying, eyes glued on screen and your conversation well thats just history.

So many people walk around the streets not watching where they are going but are busy face down, nose on screen. How anti social can social networks get?