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The "help or hurt" angle isn't going to be my tack here.
What I will say is that our consciousness is framed by the media in which we participate. Our lives consist of the interactions between our consciousness and the world - as mediated by thought/language and technology. It is a McLuhan-esque axiom and I have seen nothing that contradicts this.
A corollary is that the world itself is altered by the media and frames of reference we use to apprehend it and to interact with it. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing else.
As to whether all this mediation is a good or bad thing, it depends on who exactly I'm addressing at any one moment and what, in my estimation, they need to be hearing from me.
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