Technology and Being Alone

People act like everyone else when they're with everyone else. No one does it on purpose. I guess it's just human nature. When people are alone with only their thoughts, that's the only time they are truly themselves. My problem with technology is that we are never truly by ourselves. Every time we receive a text we glide right back into school mode: be who you are when you're at school. We are constantly on facebook looking at what other people are doing and wondering what they'll think about what we're doing. We're always communicating: writing on each others' walls and such. We're only alone in the shower and in bed. I know someone who even texts in the shower. What is that!
If I'm on a vacation and my family ends up eating in a dirty restaurant in some slum we didn't know about with holes in the wall(or something like that), all I can think is that nobody in school would ever be in this situation. I'm usually not a person who cares, but for some reason, it's always on my mind. And because I have a cellphone in my pocket, home is never far away. And if I don't have my cellphone, someone I'm with does. And if they don't, there are phones all around us anyway. Maybe that's why people are so stressed. We never get a real vacation. We can go someplace different, but we carry everybody from home with us.
I feel like people spend less time being individuals when they have less time alone. It's like we're always being watched. Even if we are alone, we always have it in the back of our minds that someone could be judging us anyway. On our facebook profile. With facebook, we have the ability to find out a person's interests, their friends, what they do on the weekends, down to how they're feeling today. It gives us a lot to compare ourselves to. Whether we decide we are better or worse or cooler or less cool or prettier or uglier, we are comparing ourselves to others on characteristics that don't matter. I think being alone is just as important as not being alone. We grow in different ways. When we're never really alone, we're really missing something.