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I appreciate the observation that technology makes our lives busier as opposed to simpler.  Each new form of communication and social media has its own customs, coding,  and responsibilities.  People are always quick to point out that sending an email is less time consuming than writing one out by hand and putting in the mail.  But when that was the standard, the turn around time to reply (one of the responsibilities for that medium) was a least a day, if not more.  Now, emails are used more like text messages, in that they are expected to be received and responded to within hours.  Also, the ease of sending email means that people are more likely to send and receive email in a much higher volume than they ever would have sent snail mail.  So ultimately, they are spending more time on written correspondence.  We often reduce technological comparisons to delivery time and and ignore the application.  Like this post, just because you can read it the instant I submit it, doesn't mean it took less time to produce.