Researchers who've been studying the family from the days before the web had already described how family life was weakening because of the rise of individualism.Divorce was already on the increase before email,instant messagingand Facebook.Families were even then eating fewer meals together.It's a hidden trait of the adults of ne mdern era t pint the finger at a technlgy they don't understand and blame it for the next generation's behaviour that they can't cntrol.