Must...keep..twittering

One of my favorite movies is 'Crash'. I like the opening dialogue where Don Cheadle says "In real cities, people bump into each other, brush past. But in LA, nobody touches anybody. We are always behind this glass and metal. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just to feel something". This line got stuck in my head, and hence, this post. I am wondering if the world has started turning into a big LA. And if that is true, I think we have begun crashing. We are living in an increasingly tell-all world. We blog, twitter, network, and put up our videos and pictures on the Internet for the world to see. We spend hours on Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Orkut. We have grabbed this as a chance to tell the world- "This is who I am. This is what I like. This is what I do". If that's not enough, we 'twitter' to keep people updated on what we are doing 'right now'. This voracious appetite of people to consume every minute, personal and mostly useless information about other people, is something we didn't know existed. Interestingly enough, for every person who writes daily reports of his digestive system, and posts it on the Internet, there are 100 people who read it! And post comments!! Is this a backlash to the culture that technology helped shape in its earlier days? Remember the culture of 'no human touch'? Our calls were starting to get answered by machines so that companies didn't have to pay employees. We started checking out our own stuff at the grocery stores. We stopped going to the store everytime to shop and even to the office to work because we could do it over the computer in our bedroom. I think we started missing that human touch so much that we crashed into each other by supplying endless updates about our personal lives to all people we knew and sometimes didn't know.
Afterthought: Do you know about postsecret.com? It presents scans of postcards sent by people from all over the world with their secrets written on them. Some are funny and innocent, but some are way too personal and dark; to the point that they are disturbing. Why do people do it? Obviously there are a lot of secrets in the world that people want to get off their collective chest. Are the days of 'skeletons in the closet' gone? Just because now it's okay to display dead bodies for the world to see?