What's up with surfing?

On the phone, in the car (IN THE CAR!), wherever we are, we are surfing - checking our email, checking for IMS, blogging, tweeting - constantly on the conversational move, leading and following, :)ing and lol'ing about nothing and everything. People are chatting, but not making eye contact. People are watching t.v. with one eye and half a mind on their computer/phone/game screen.  What will happen to in-depth one-on-one conversation? How long is an attention span? It used to be 'face time' and now it's "Facebook" and we Facebook during face time.

And don't get me started on Google answering every question known to mankind.