Do modern gadgets make people dependent and lazy?

Social media has made life so easy, in fact, that some of us only remember our friends’ birthdays from Facebook! Social music services like Last.FM and Spotify even let us browse through what music our friends are listening to without ever having to ask them ourselves. We can even discover what our friends have been up to, who they’re talking to, and what events they have planned by browsing their user profiles and following their feed.