With everyone keen to stare at their phones for hours, have we lost realization of what it means to actively participate in life?

Technology has done wonders for our world. Now within seconds, an individual in Pakistan can connect to a friend in Australia – or the US, or even Antarctica!

But in our species' quest to keep 'connected' through social media, have we lost realization of what it means to actively participate in life? Are our relationships strengthened or weakened by the onslaught of technological communication?