You know what's funny about this thread? No one bothered to look up the source site of the article-Cracked.com. An article from a humor site used as a discussion topic.

Technology doesn't make people miserable. People make other people miserable. Technology is just a tool. In this case, a means to reach out to other people whose main purpose in life is to inflate themselves by making other look bad. Those people are already out there before the internet even existed. Like in real life, you can avoid them if you choose to.

Whether you choose to wither away at the keyboard or do some healthy exercise has nothing to with technology. It is a decision that you make. Technology is just an additional option in your life. Like every choice you make, you will need to face the consequence of that decision.

See the problem with discussing an article which is based on opinion. Everyone has an opinion which may or may not coincide with yours. How does one tell which opinion is more "correct" than another? You don't.