Media on demand can facilitate the breakdown of communication and relationships. Homes used to have one, maybe two entertainment hubs where families and friends would watch what was programmed or agree on a movie. Not as desirable as people actually interacting, but at least you were in each others' company. Now everyone just fracks off to their own computer to demand their own media. It's great; I wouldn't go back to watching commercial TV, but it sure makes it easy to get sucked into anti-social behaviour patterns.

You can extend the blame to the internet in general, or rather people's inability to regulate their own use of it. I have friends I barely see any more because of the internet. I used to watch movies and play video games, go skateboarding or shoot hoops with a couple of guys - one is now completely obsessed with online gaming and can't talk about anything else, the other is addicted to fan fiction and has read so many of them that he has actually started reading fan fiction stories with characters from TV shows he has never seen. It wouldn't annoy me so much if they were, you know... actual books. Even he admits most of them are terrible.

Now I'm off to watch nine straight hours of cartoons, six is amateur stuff.